Word: torning
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...reports that Rotary was doing things. Often, what it did seemed so puny as to be almost insignificant in the vast sweep of world affairs. It had, for instance, brought 57 young students from 18 nations to study together in Sweden. It organized a blood-bank program in war-torn Korea. It sent a young Pakistani to make friends in Washington's Yakima Valley. It is sponsoring an international network of radio hams. Its magazines had kept Rotarians in Kenya, Viet Nam and Trieste posted on the activities of their fellows in Ceylon, Wichita and Sioux City...
...plainly and unmistakably American as the prostyle of a Midwestern bank, he joined the villagers for coffee and sweets at the local inn and promptly got down to business. "Some of us," he told his listeners, "think you can grow things on this land of yours. Rice, for instance." Torn between skepticism and wonder, the farmers of Anthele listened respectfully as Packard went on to outline a plan whereby U.S. money and Greek labor might be combined to test the fertility of the plain of Anthele...
...brawler, an inventor, a Mormon excommunicated for defending polygamy and the leader of a strange band of men and women. Last week Wilson was found on his left side, lying on a sandy, sunny slope, a Geiger counter still clicking in his right hand. Six .45-caliber slugs had torn great holes in his back and head. He was the first man to be dry-gulched, as prospectors in the Old West so frequently died, in the 20th century rush for the new glamor metal, uranium...
...with only one deputy, over 3,800 square miles. Notified that Wilson had not returned, he went to the spot where the car had stood. From there he followed two sets of men's tracks, leading into the hills. Just before sundown he found Wilson's bullet-torn body. The tracks indicated that the two men had walked side by side until they came to the gully. Then one had dropped behind about twelve feet. This man, it seemed, had shot Wilson and not even walked forward to examine the body. His tracks led back to the place...
...became a full-fledged parish priest at Salzano he gave away so much to the poor that his clerical ring was often in the pawnshop. At the end of his nine years there his devoted parishioners wrote a poem for him that went: "He came in garments that were torn, he left without a shirt...