During his tryout, Young impressed the scouts, recalling years later, " I almost tore the boards off the grandstand with my fast ball.

Pesky again described Williams ' acumen in the advance training for which Pesky personally did not qualify: " I heard Ted literally tore the sleeve target to shreds with his angle dives.

I wrote the first Reagan budget -- the Gramm-Latta budget that rebuilt national defense and that laid the foundation for a program of peace through strength ; the Reagan program that tore down the Berlin Wall, that liberated Eastern Europe, that transformed the Soviet Union and that changed the world.

His last recorded words were: " The city is fallen and I am still alive ", and then he tore off his imperial ornaments so as to let nothing to distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.

Edward I, enraged, tore out handfuls of his son's hair and threw him out of the royal chambers.

" When Springsteen arrived for his first UK concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, he personally tore down the " Finally the world is ready for Bruce Springsteen " posters in the lobby and ordered that the buttons with " I have seen the future of rock ' n ' roll at the Hammersmith Odeon " printed on them not be given out.

In March 1929, however, she parted with Roach, who tore up her contract after Harlow told him, " It's breaking up my marriage ; what can I do?

I told you that I had completed a Symphony which suddenly displeased me, and I tore it up.

In the interview she states " years ago my husband and I tore down one of the most iconic Hollywood mansions because of termites ... but that wasn't the real reason.

This is a moment of awakening for Firdaus, and she recalls that it, " solved the enigma in one swift, sweeping moment, tore away the shroud that covered up a truth I had in fact experienced when still a child, when for the first time my father gave me a coin to hold in my hand, and be mine.

In a news post dated August 22, 2006 she wrote " I tore this site down because I couldn't see.

" Aaron gave me an autographed picture the next day, and I stood there and tore it up in mock anger.

World War I tore the party apart as orthodox socialists were challenged by advocates of national syndicalism that advocated a revolutionary war to liberate Italian territories from Austrian control and to force the government by threat of violence to adopt changes that would create a corporatist state.

He says: " I tore the Studio apart by myself ... no help from any of my friends ... in fact not even a word ... they all came and got the stuff they had stored and left the stuff they didn ’ t want so I could haul it away and they just never spoke to me again ..."

Bret Hart, who was forced to retire when a stiff kick from Power Plant graduate Bill Goldberg tore a muscle in his neck and gave him post-concussion syndrome, blamed the end of his career on the Power Plant training regime, saying " I don't think it was a priority to protect your opponent.

" When King Numedides lay dead at my feet and I tore the crown from his gory head and set it on my own, I had reached the ultimate border of my dreams.

And sometimes in my attempts to steer homewards, upon nautical principles, by fixing my eye on the pole-star, and seeking ambitiously for a north-west passage, instead of circumnavigating all the capes and headlands I had doubled in my outward voyage, I came suddenly upon such knotty problems of alleys, such enigmatical entries, and such sphinx's riddles of streets without thoroughfares, as must, I conceive, baffle the audacity of porters, and confound the intellects of hackney-coachmen.

He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

I had signed it off on the forms.

`` I '' -- She broke off, frowning.

Couldn't I just '' -- His voice trailed off into silence.

I guided her to the divan, turned off the TV, faced her.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

I was loaded with suds when I ran away, and I haven't had a chance to wash it off.

I suppose a Lascar sailor had sneaked a cigarette in the hold and touched off the blaze.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

I thought it expedient to take off my derby, my glasses, and the beard ; ;

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.

No matter how large the fire, I couldn't seem to shake off the chill that day.

`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

I went off with Cousin Simmons, who maintained that if he didn't see to me, he didn't know who would.

There I was a retired wobbly and structural iron worker who'd never gouged a cent off a fellow worker in my thirty years in the movement.

`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.

`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.

I loved my garden ''.

`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.

I could see them in my sights.

I found his chest in my sights.

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

I withdrew my hand.

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.