Word: torning
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...diplomats from some 30 missions. Some will no doubt be purged; the survivors, Japanese analysts suspect, may have a significant say in Chinese foreign policy after the purge is over. That there is hardly anyone minding the diplomatic store abroad for China in the meantime does not much matter; torn asunder by strife at home, Peking has little it can-or wants to-say to the outside world...
...father was hired by Ford's chief engineer and given a free hand to design the Ford Tri-Motor. It is to Torn Towle, a relatively unknown aviation pioneer, that credit should go for designing the Tin Goose, with its legendary lifting power, durability and structural integrity. He is the real grandfather of the Bushmaster 2000, son of Tin Goose...
...century Chinese poet Li Po's description of a bearded sage as "a man with a strand of hair 3,000 yards long." In the same vein, Red Guard posters have blithely advocated that Mao's enemies be "burned at the stake," recounted tongues and ears being torn off in street fighting and reviled Mrs. Liu Shao-chi one week as a "common prostitute" and the next, somewhat bewilderingly, as "priggish...
Since the Geneva accords of 1962 established its tripartite "neutrality," the landlocked, Lilliputian kingdom of Laos has teetered continually on the cliff-edge of chaos. Torn between the demands of the rightist Royal Laotian Army and the intransigent Communist Pathet Lao, which controls nearly half of the country, Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma maintains a facade of government simply because he is the only Premier acceptable to both the West and the Communist powers. Last week, when Laotians went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly in the first countrywide elections since 1960, foreign observers from a dozen capitals...
...late Queen Louise lovingly used to twit the King about his digging enthusiasms. Once, while the royal limousine was inching along a torn-up street in Stockholm, she asked him: "Gusti, have you been busy here lately?" But she was equally proud of his accomplishments, used to remark: "I didn't marry a King. I married a professor." And very like a professor the King still acts, always carrying a pocket magnifying glass and often remarking that if Sweden ever got rid of his crown, he could always go to work in a museum...