Word: torning
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...notary. We announced ourselves husband and wife. Notary affixed his seal and turned papers over to us. We consulted with friends and the recorder in the city of New York and they all said if this paper was filed at end of six months the marriage was legal, if torn up at end of six months, no marriage. Had we consulted a lawyer, he would have told us the two witnesses made the marriage legal from the start. We found ourselves in the legal trap-divorce followed...
...Martin Johnson, with both jaws broken, skull cracked, a shattered hip and internal wounds, became hysterical with pain. Osa, with leg broken and a concussion, was able only to wipe his face. Rescuers struggling up the mountain heard his screams afar. The plane was almost intact, with one motor torn loose. Nearby was a small fire lookout station. There for nearly ten hours the injured lay before they could be carried down the precipitous slope. Next morning Martin Johnson died. At week's end two other passengers had also died...
...Army officers climbed into the hold of the Mar Cantabrico, found 32 field kitchens which the Army had sold as junk, sternly forbade the ship to sail until the stenciled "U. S. Army" was painted out on the kitchens. Customs agents forced a big crate of shoes to be torn open because it weighed 400 lb. and they thought shoes should not weigh so much...
...legend states, "All the earth shall tremble so, and the crags, that trees shall be torn up from the earth, and the crags fall to ruin; and all fetters and bonds shall be broken and rent. . . . In this din shall the heavens be cloven, and the sons of Muspell ride thence: Sutr shall ride first and both before and after him burning fire." Leading the giants is the traitor Loki, holding a flame thrower, and Frey, who opposes him is swept by flames. Thor, the thunder god, rushes to the attack, wielding his mighty workman's hammer...
This my heart is torn and maimed...