Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is the blood-red flag with the black double-headed German eagle that Photographer Bob Landry tore from the wall of Gestapo Headquarters in Gela, Sicily (it might have cost him his life; he found out later that two British officers were killed by a booby trap in that room). There is the Japanese flag a Marine Corps sergeant who graduated from the MARCH OF TIME'S School for Combat Photographers sent us after the battle for Hill 660 on Cape Gloucester (scribbled all around the Rising Sun are good wishes from the friends...
National holiday or no, banks and stores stayed open in Vicksburg. Firecrackers never popped, skyrockets never tore the night sky. Instead, the story of the black day was passed on from fathers to children, who could see the cannon balls imbedded in Vicksburg's old courthouse. These bitter memories persisted...
Labor Party leaders tore their hair. Herbert Morrison, Labor Party policy maker, denied that his Party would ever use violence. Cried Labor Party newspapers: "Another Zinoviev letter...
Ernest Hemingway, who tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...
...Lord Halifax came to the Big Powers' defense. "These documents," said he, "represent the highest point of agreement among the Big Five and they cannot be further modified." Barked Connally to the objectors: "Do you want to tear up the charter?" To emphasize the point Connally tore to confetti some papers in front...