Word: torning
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...planes, a cadre will quickly take out his notebook and, like the mayor of a riot-torn U.S. city, calculate the amount of damage. Then he reports it to the villagers to fuel their anger...
...were trapped inside. Then it moved on to hurl rocks at the French cultural center and the American and British embassies, loot shops and set fire to cars along the way. Before Mobutu decided that it was time for him to ask the rioters to go home, they had torn down a 35-ft.-high bronze statue of Belgium's King Albert I that had been a city landmark for years...
...majority can be expected to submit indefinitely to a reign of terror like this, brought about not only by a minority, but a minority of a minority, of whatever color. Planned or accidental-and I am sure it is the former-this nation is being torn in two against the best interests of all races. Are we to have night riders and vigilantes again? Is the North now to be persuaded that the KKK-and the latter-day Wallaces and Bilbos-had the answer after...
...stood there, 50 Syrian prisoners sat in the sun waiting to be processed. Many of them had clearly discarded their uniforms and torn their insignias from their clothing; some of those in pajamas and underwear claimed they were civiilans who had been caught in the middle of the battle--the Israeli guards chuckled and pointed to the military markings on their underwear...
...Pattakos Minister of the Interior The Greeks are behaving themselves all right, but what Greek can be happy if he never does silly things? After its first 100 days in power, the junta that took over Greece in a lightning coup has restored order to a country that was torn by political strife. It has done so at the expense of much of Greece's exuberant, explosive spirit. The image of a surtaki-dancing, owzo-glass-smashing people is being replaced by that of a docile folk whose chief concern seems to be getting to church on time...