Word: torning
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...tragic page torn from the primitive history of Carolina Mountain folk...
...Klan, on the other hand advocates racial prejudice and religious discrimation. I am against any secret on ganisations in politics and I am opposed such discrimination in, as I have said, contrary to the Constitution to be torn down to one place it will not be long before the entire fabric will crumble away...
...That in passing on the transaction, Ewing Laporte, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, had torn out a sheet from the lease on which the sum of $77,000 was mentioned for one parcel of land and substituted a sheet on which the sum was $90,000. (This was emphatically denied by Laporte...
...held by Sir Edmund Tilney. Good Sir Edmund--whether from sheer spite or momentary indisposition, reporters were unable to ascertain--grasped his blue pencil with a shriek of rage, and by means of sparkling marginal notes commanded drastic revision. Four accomplished dramatists hurried to his assistance, bore away the torn and bleeding playlet and revamped it to a more conventional pattern. Fortunately for modern scholars, one of the attending surgeons left the results of his efforts in his own hand. Careful examination shows that the writing corresponds almost exactly to the signature at the end of the last will...
...Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...