Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesuit Martyrs of North America meticulous Father John J. Wynne, S.J., describes with careful detail how the martyrs were tortured in the New York and Canadian woods by Indians who tore out their nails, hair and beards, chewed their fingers, and as one martyr said "even went so far-a savage act-as in cold blood [to] wound us with their nails, which are extremely sharp, in the most tender and sensitive parts of the body." Eventually all eight were despatched by the Indians, several with tomahawks. There is no question of the heroic circumstances of their deaths. But many...
...Toulouse, France, Jean Vives, postman, went mad when he could find no mail to deliver. He perched on the roof of a house, tore off tiles which he hurled at passersby, was finally removed by the fire department...
...stern, thin-lipped Yankee skipper of the old school, came on deck at this juncture, saw what he thought were breakers-a shoal. He mounted the bridge ladder two rungs at a time and fairly tore the glasses from my hands...
...crowd of Viennese, welcoming Emil Tannings, German cinemactor, to their city, tore off his necktie, ripped the buttons from his clothing, trampled, kicked, mauled him. Although he was able to appear on crutches at a radio station, his two attending physicians ordered him to bed for five days to recuperate from sprains, contusions...
When the War started by Princip shattered Imperial Austria, his province of Bosnia with its capital Serajevo entered the new kingdom of "Greater Serbia" or Jugoslavia, and the Great Assassin seemed from the point of view of his people a pure hero. They tore out a wall tablet erected in mourning for the assassinated Archduke, replaced it with a laudatory tablet to Princip, surmounting his name with laurel wreaths. Protests from abroad caused the Jugoslavian Government to order the Princip tablet covered with a thin layer of plaster, the official position being that it has been obliterated, while the populace...