Word: torning
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From the dawn of civilization those practicing the healing arts have met with frustrations, and the modern physician is no exception; it is only that the quality of his frustration has changed. The physician finds himself much in demand and he is torn between the exhaustion of overwork and the guilt of not fulfilling what he believes are all his obligations. He often works at a pace incompatible with home life, a life in the community apart from medicine or in fact any opportunity to enjoy the fruits of his labor. His anxieties which arise from this state of affairs...
Margot Fonteyn. Against a hazy background of sumptuously costumed choristers arranged like figures in a Renaissance tapestry, Dame Margot was a floating vision in white. Dancing with the Paris Opera's Attilio Labis, she portrayed a maiden-monarch torn between love and duty, melting from sternly regal poses into flights of rapturous lyricism. Marina Svetlova's straightforward choreography was in perfect accord with Purcell's music-buoyant, charming, exquisitely simple...
...deracinated existences; everything is torn apart by the passing hour...
...Governor Brown. Though he is lagging behind in the polls (as he was against Know-land in 1958 and Nixon in 1962), they consider him a sure winner. It is a pleasure to be able to report at least one event of heart-warming familiarity in an otherwise war-torn political year...
...renounce nuclear armament and maintain East Germany's socialist economy. Ulbricht wins congratulations from Pope Paul VI but is overthrown by a hard-lining Communist clique when public opinion in East Germany runs rampantly in advance of the formal negotiations and forces him to order the Wall torn down. After a countercoup, negotiations resume, and by 1975 a four-power conference, convened by France, approves the new German confederation...