Word: torning
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...matter how far ahead they are, Michigan players always manage to look half undressed-their blue jerseys and yellow pants ripped and torn. Crisler has a reason for that too: once he lost a game at Princeton when an opposing player grabbed his halfback by the sleeve and brought him down. Now Crisler uniforms his teams in flimsy zephyr cloth so rippable that Harmon once used up 20 jerseys in one season...
...result of the misunderstanding the placards were torn down from the bulletin boards which were considered too sacrosanct for the posting of police circulars...
...heroes of those awful hours in the plane were nine U.S. merchant seamen, homeward bound after delivering a tanker to an English buyer. They nonchalantly ate sardines and crackers, reassured the passengers and tied bibs made of torn sheets around the necks of retching men & women...
...declining years by that most dangerous form of satyriasis which longs for naked power alone, Jinnah has beyond question done more than any other man in India to exacerbate the sores of communalism and to tease and torment their rawness; and this purely to secure his nation, and a torn body for India...
...poster was tattered; the top right hand corner had been torn off, as if someone had tried to wrench the whole thing down, and over it had been clumsily scrawled in pencil, "Vendus comme les autres" (sold out, like the others...