Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...contemporary of Rhazes was called to the king's court to treat a lady in waiting for stiff joints. He tore off her veil and skirt, left her hot with shame. Her heat, wrote the doctor, dissolved the "rheumatic humor." She was cured...
...verbal bullets that tore the air in the Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson campaign made 1940's pot shots sound like popgun plips...
...newsmen, who learned for the umptieth time that this was the most unconventional of all Presidential candidates, shrugged, tore up their leads. Willkie laid a wreath on the Lincoln tomb and the train rocked on into Minnesota...
Student demonstrations took place in Oslo last week against the Government of traitorous Premier Vidkun Quisling. There were nightly forays of protest, during which boys tore anti-Semitic signs from Jewish-owned shops. The Gestapo disbanded a students' association, arrested several, threatened to close Oslo University for the winter term...
...about 50 ft. long. The greys were paralyzed with terror. "I watched a grey whale turn on its back with flippers outspread and lie helpless at the surface. Rushing at full speed, a killer put his nose against the whale's lips, forced its mouth open, and tore out great chunks of the soft, sponge-like tongue. A half-dozen other killers began tearing at the giant body, literally eating the whale alive...