Word: torning
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...Paris he wears expensive European suits, is driven around town in his black Cadillac by a white French chauffeur, lives in a luxurious apartment. In Abidjan he wears cotton native robes, keeps a black Chrysler, maintains a house there and in his native village of Yamoussoukio, where he has torn down the straw huts and replaced them with 500 new concrete houses...
...teammate, Ragnar Ulland, soared to a crash landing in a practice ski jump and was badly bruised. Italy's downhill ski champion, Maria-Grazia Marchelli, fresh from a plaster cast, whipped down a Tofana slope at 50 m.p.h.; she wound up back on the sidelines with a torn knee ligament. In a sense, the accidents were inevitable. The traditional contests, with which the games began in ancient Greece, strain muscle and mind, but rarely endanger life. Only since the Olympics moved to the mountains have they acquired a real element of danger...
...torn 1943, Winston Churchill sent a top-secret, high-priority order winging to one of his subordinates. It concerned a dwindling garrison at Gibraltar. Legend has long held that when the last of the famed Barbary apes leave Gibraltar, the British will soon follow. With the pack reduced to seven, Churchill was taking no chances. A troop transport was dispatched to North Africa to get more apes...
...dress who sits in a chair telling a fairy story. Despite the dull camerawork, says Schorr, "she was a good actress and told the story warmly and simply." Next, in Schorr's monitoring, came an excerpt from a play called Red Clouds. The plot: a young man is torn between the revolutionary fervor of 1905 and the pious exhortations of his father, an Orthodox priest; he breaks away from the "evil influence of religion," curses his father, goes off to join the workers' revolt...
...1880s the alien mass of Austin Hall was crowding it into Kirkland Street from behind and Professor James Bradley Thayer, a latter-day saint of the Law School, was living there. At some now well-hidden date before the turn of the century, Holmes house was torn down, not to make way for Littauer, which didn't inflate the landscape until much later, but presumably because, like its garret's contents, it was slowly going to pieces...