Word: torning
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...second resolution, favored 174 to 15, affirmed support for the Provisional revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. The group pledged to contribute one day's pay to purchase medical supplies for all people in war-torn countries of Southeast Asia, including those areas not controlled by U.S. forces...
SINGLY and in small groups at first, then in gun-waving mobs, the retreating South Vietnamese troops streamed out of shell-torn Quang Tri city. For four days their procession down sun-baked Highway 1 continued to swell. There were soldiers on foot wearing only mud-caked underwear and with rags wrapped around their feet in place of boots. Some rode on the fenders of cars commandeered at rifle point; others clung to army trucks that careered through South Viet Nam's northern countryside with lights ablaze at midday and horns blaring. The line stretched to the horizon...
...other (professional) show and opted out the next week. Guy re-cast the part, but by then the show was one-third blocked, voices were more developed, and more importantly, the cast had become close. The others asked Guy to take over Amsterdam. "I figure I'll get torn apart for being an actor-director. The egocentricity, after hearing 104 other people!" But it was, after all, how fate had manipulated...
...felt one brother jump on top of him, then another, then it all just became a blur and then sudden pain. He didn't scream but he did kick. When he was unfurled, he lay in pain, his shoulder torn apart. The brothers thought it was just a bruise and hoisted him up. He asked to have his blindfold removed and for a postponement of his initiation. He left the house quickly, pushing aside brothers as he went. It was a quick sprint to University Hospital...
Diagnosis: Separated shoulder, torn ligaments, torn tissue...