Word: torning
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...embarrassment. We learn very little from such declamations as "How can a very small and insignificant soul break from a creed, which, if it does nothing else, at least proclaims consistently and vehemently and unwaveringly that it alone possess the one complete truth in the universe? I am torn." Montaigne's remark that "We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish out real liberty and out principal retreat and solitude" is good advice...
...Action is busily evaded in stage business, and the talk drifts into the confessional memoirs of two strangers who have unaccountably shot past the handshaking stage. Ultimately, the strain of staying out of bed becomes more intense than the pleasure of getting into it. Thus the play is incessantly torn between farce and pathos, and each of the two key players marks out one of these modes and acts in it with splendid isolation...
When Floyd Wilson became head coach, Harvard basketball was in deplorable condition. The team was torn by dissension and it was a disgrace to the College. In the past eight years, under Wilson, a complete turn about has taken place. Not only is the basketball team no longer a disgrace, but its conduct and the calibre of the individuals who play on it have made it a positive credit to the College. This is well known throughout the Ivy League and was given formal recognition several years ago when Harvard was voted the League's sportsmanship award...
...week's end Cairo Radio was spreading word of a cease-fire by mutual agreement in rebellion-torn Yemen. It said that Saudi Arabia was prepared to stop supplying the royalists supporting ex-Imam Badr with money and munitions, while Nasser may withdraw a token contingent of his 28,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force by April 20. Though Nasser's broadcasters are not the most reliable sources in the world, things may well come to this, for without doubt Jordan and Saudi Arabia-and all other Arabs-are becoming increasingly anxious to avoid angering Nasser...
...When the directors did not agree, Verolme left to found his own engineering works. He heard of a demand for Dutch "Haagsche hopjes" candy in the U.S., raised the money to market a huge shipload, and used the profits to import diesel engines from Switzerland to equip the war-torn fleets then rebuilding everywhere...