Word: torning
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...rebels dropped what might be called a Khmer curtain over the country they had just conquered. As of week's end, ten days after the fall of Phnom-Penh, very little was known about the composition of the new regime, how it was running the war-torn state or what had become of the defeated leaders who were unable to escape. With normal lines of communication severed, roads blocked and airports closed, Cambodia was almost completely...
...panels strongly suggest sets of doors. Through which the women described on them and others have stepped. The pictures and prose set in black on these panels resemble Alice-In-Wonderland sized pages; it's almost as if they were torn from a book, animated and made larger than life...
Harvard continues to be a calm spot in the sea of East Coast campuses that have been torn apart by the recession-inspired issue of the year, student fee hikes...
...doesn't come through. The object doesn't reflect that feeling. You put something in it that's no longer there. Something of yourself...I avoid that strictly now. Although I'm very interested in the immediate past impersonally." Records of streets that have since been cleared out and torn down "take on a tremendous appeal and beauty far above the level of nostalgia. It's the impact of history...
Despite his ruthless oppression of political opponents, Tombalbaye was never able to gain complete control of Chad, a country torn by traditional religious and tribal animosities. Starting in 1965 and later with the support of the French Foreign Legion, Tombalbaye fought a guerrilla war against the Moslem rebels from his country's northern and eastern desert regions. The Moslems, who constitute 52% of the population, resented the political dominance that Tombalbaye gave to the Bantu tribesmen of Chad's tropical south...