Word: torning
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...success of the squad this year is somewhat phenomenal because the team is operating without a home range. Ever since the old rifle range was torn down the squad has been deprived of practice facilities...
...Cuba's 20 neighbors saw-and in their speeches condemned-the dangerous presence of a Communist dictatorship on their door steps. Of the six abstentions in the formal vote on expulsion, Mexico balked by declaring that under inter-American treaties, only "moral" condemnation was legal. Brazil, torn by economic and political chaos since Jánio Quadros' renunciation of the presidency last August, was clearly afraid that a yes vote would further divide its people. Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile had home problems as well. Even those four important Latin nations were willing to go along with...
...suits only in Lausanne, because, she says, so many others wear Chanel suits in Paris and New York. She never wears shorts ("You have to be a girl to wear shorts; nobody but a child looks right in them"). In her early Palm Beach days, in fact, Gloria was torn by a dilemma. A dress was too chic for downtown wear, she decided, and of course shorts wouldn't do. "So I appeared on Worth Avenue in trousers from Capri." Suddenly everybody was wearing Capri pants, and "suddenly they became vulgar. In a way, I am to blame...
...college girl (Carroll Baker, in private life Mrs. Garfein) who goes skipping through a New York City park alone after dark. When she comes to, she tidies her clothes, staggers home, sneaks upstairs past her prudish parent (Mildred Dunnock). In a meticulous ritual of hysteria, she cuts up her torn clothes, flushes them down the drain, pops into bed as if nothing had happened, as if out of sight were really out of mind...
...Spanish air force hospital for his first in-patient treatment since 1916, when Riff rebels wounded him in the stomach in Spanish Morocco. At the hospital, Spain's top surgeons removed fragments of Franco's gun and shooting glove from his hand, saved his badly torn index finger. Three days later, despite continuing pain, the portly chief of state was back in the palace, polishing up his year-end broadcast to his subjects...