Word: torning
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...schoolboys supporting the home team had nearly torn the place apart in stomping "Encore! Encore!" as the Friars rolled up an impressive 4 to 1 lead after a third of the final period had expired...
...were pulling out, Egyptian propaganda and money, once welcomed by the Sudanese independents, were only an embarrassment. Last week, without asking the permission of either stepmother, the Sudan's Premier Azhari proclaimed the Sudan an independent country. Neither stepmother felt in a position to object, although the Sudan, torn by revolt, is obviously not ready to run itself...
That was not the end but the beginning of another violent week on Britain's strife-torn island colony. Archbishop Makarios III, bearded marshal of Greek-Cypriot agitation for union with Greece, has repeatedly insisted that he would have no part of 1) Communists, 2) bloodshed. Last week his position on both counts was in doubt. After the crackdown on Communists, the archbishop spoke up to "denounce the action of the British government." Said he: "We believe one ideology can be fought only by another . . . not by force...
...more starkly against the mass. As a result, the picture is no intellectual slumming party but a hard-eyed study of human character, and the actors serve this end with a well-directed will. Arnold Stang, as Sparrow the dog stealer, looks as woebegone and unhealthy as a tenement torn just starting his ninth life on the garbage-can circuit, but he seldom hides the human quality of his part behind his television false face. Kim Novak is the type of the neighborhood frill, and she gives her big scene all she's got. Frank Sinatra, in particular, does...
...camera and negatives to take such pictures. "As soon as I got back into Hong Kong," she said later, "I wiped the sweat off my brow, looked back at the Communist flag and spat. I'll never go back into that world again unless that flag is torn down...