Word: torning
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...host in Panama, I took him to dinner on the carrier Saratoga. He was asked if he could tear any book in half, and he said yes. The officers produced first a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, which he caught in midair; it barely touched his hands and went sailing back, torn crosswise from the back into two pieces. They handed him a 1,700-page dictionary, and he grasped it by the back and slowly tore it into two pieces, the tear going through every page and covers, without once taking his hands off. As an encore, he took...
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Thinking both had missed, and muttering to himself in a cold rage, Gilmore followed the MIG through another wrenching, rolling loop of a brain-draining six gravities, then cut loose a third Sidewinder. The enemy's tail section came apart in a tumble of torn metal, and the plane pitched earthward. In fact, Gilmore's first Sidewinder had also scored, and the Red pilot had ejected. In getting the first MIG-21, Gilmore had killed it twice...
...remove the causes of Negro resentment. The county established a human-rights commission two years ago, held race-relations courses for sheriff's deputies, pledged funds for a Marin City community center. Most of the town's 1,500 jerry-built wartime housing units have been torn down, and officials are making a start at finding jobs for Negro youths. What has lifted hopes highest, however, is Marin City's unique "reverse integration" campaign to attract non-Negro residents...
...they could take place within the framework of basic American tradition. Some of the most drastic recent changes in American life-the emergence of unprecedented strong federal authority, the growth of what is in effect a welfare state, the election of a Roman Catholic to the presidency-could have torn or distorted the fabric of less firmly based societies. In the U.S. they were possible without major upheavals precisely because the underlying tradition of freedom under law and of responsible citizenship is so strong. Despite the disappearance of so many familiar landmarks, Sociologist David Riesman sees "incredible durability and tenacity...