Word: torning
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...series progresses, hairy, obscene women with their skirts pulled down around their knees join in the orgy. Money flutters around them; gigantic vultures hover about them. Huge, grotesque babies' heads, their mouths distorted with pain, are superimposed on pages torn from the Bible containing wrathful Old Testament passages and stenciled with prison numbers. Naked cadavers dangle; a pregnant woman is crucified head downward...
With the patient's circulatory system connected to a pump-oxygenator, the surgeon opened the heart and found that the septum (wall) between the main pumping chambers, the ventricles, was torn and consisted partly of dead tissue. A substantial part of each ventricle, to which the blood supply had been cut off by the shutdown of a coronary artery, was also dead or dying. Dr. Heimbecker repaired the septum with a Teflon patch. Then, as the dying muscle in the ventricle walls was interfering with the working of healthy muscle, he boldly decided to cut it out. He removed...
...conviction that the North can be battered into some kind of submission--as the President apparently believes--is sheer folly. The Soviet Union and a strife-torn Communist China will not permit even the appearance of this to occur. And if Johnson were fortunate enough to force the North Vietnamese to cut drastically their aid to the NLF, there is no reason to believe that the Viet Cong insurrection could be quelled to the point where a civilian regime could effectively govern the South...
...promulgated, religious freedom established, the then radical notion of an eight-hour working day instituted, and plans drawn up for land reform, the most pressing problem of all. Kerensky, who quickly became a national hero, pinned his hopes on elections for a constituent assembly. But his government was torn between those who wanted to opt out of the war and those who felt that Russia's obligations to the Allies should be honored. Hardly anyone experienced in government existed, and all the pre-revolutionary problems remained and multiplied. Above all, Russia still carried the serf's burden...
...bottle, which could offend Moslem teetotalers, or a disembodied human leg, which has connotations of cannibalism. In a few districts, no one was bold enough to present himself as a candidate; in almost all, dire threats were made against those who voted. For months, the south has been torn by a Mau Mau-like revolt among its 4,000,000 black tribesmen, who fear political domination by the 9,000,000 people of the mostly Arab and Moslem north...