Word: tore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tore his last piece of toast in half and began again...
...Santa Fe one fine autumn day, the wind tore away the canvas covering a 2-by-4-ft. bas-relief on the wall of an annex to New Mexico's Capitol. The bas-relief looked sullen, weary and very nude and it shocked a passing citizen. At once he told his Baptist minister, who in turn marched off to protest to 65-year-old Governor Thomas J. Mabry that the sculptured figure's reclining position was "extremely suggestive...
...medal was originated by the Stockholm General Telephone Company in the memory of Henrik Tore Cedergren, Director of Telephony. It is awarded every five years to the most deserving researcher in electricity by the Royal Governors for the Universities of Technology in Sweden. Rudenberg, the eighth recipient, came to Harvard...
Vishinsky, obviously having a wonderful time, tore into Acheson. No one had stated the case against the Nationalists better than the U.S. Secretary of State himself, said Vishinsky. He cited Acheson's remarks in the State Department's 1949 China white paper (in which Acheson called the Nationalist regime "a government which had lost the confidence of its own troops and its own people"). Vishinsky also quoted from General Joseph Stilwell's memoirs, in which Stilwell described the situation in China as the "Chinese cesspool" and the Nationalist regime as a "gang of murderers." Vishinsky elaborately apologized...
...fire bombs to dump on Japan from low level. It was a risk that could have wrecked an air fleet and a career, but it caught the Japanese off guard, ripped Tokyo and three other industrial centers as devastatingly (over a period of ten days) as the atom bomb tore up Hiroshima...