Word: torn
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Ruin & Rubble. The Hungnam dock area itself was already a torn and twisted slag heap of rubble and debris left earlier by U.S. strategic bombing attacks. The concrete warehouses at the dockside had somehow escaped major damage, but most of the rest of the port facilities were in complete ruin-huge gas storage tanks crumpled up like discarded beer cans, power plants stripped of their heavy, concrete walls, their generators rusting slowly away beneath alternate snow and freezing rain. Here & there stood long lines of brand-new, Japanese-made freight cars, their gleaming white sides neatly marked with the insignia...
...inhabitants. But socially conscious Denmark has gone further than most nations in eliminating the factors that encourage tuberculosis. In lands where all else is hopeless, BCG has been given a fairer chance to make a statistical case for itself. Throughout the crowded, war-torn areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations, has injected some 14 million people with the TB vaccine. Their fond hope is that the vaccinations have cut tuberculosis morbidity* by four-fifths. Only time and a careful...
Cambridge Lutherans have wanted a church and meeting house as far back as 1928. Although the land had been purchased, the depression, war, and other financial difficulties delayed the groundbreaking. Donations kept coming in, however, and last spring, the old apartment house building was torn down to make way for its successor. Services had been held in this building up till then. During the interlude, architectural plans were considered. Originally, members of the resident planning committee had wanted a traditional New England colonial church, but M.I.T. Lutherans persuaded them to adopt a less conventional building with modern lines...
...Knees. In two awful hours of rasping vituperation at Lake Success, Mao's proxy, an unknown general named Wu Hsiu-chuan, had torn away all (or almost all) of the free world's illusions about Mao and Chinese Communism. The Mao presented there by his scar-faced servant Wu was none of the men painted by the soft China hands of American "liberalism...
...late. With a roar like an exploding artillery shell, the first car of the 6:13 buried itself, full length, in the last car of the 6:09. Both were crowded smokers; in one grinding and convulsive moment they were telescoped into a great steel package of mangled bodies, torn cushions, broken glass and twisted metal. Thin cries rose in the sudden silence...