Word: torning
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...somersaulting end over end down a steep, brushy, 100-yard slope. Below that, sheer cliffs fell away to the sea. But just before the car cleared the edge, Meuler was flung out. He was horribly hurt-one leg, a hip and his back were broken, his face was torn and his scalp split-but he rose, fell, rose again. Thomson scrambled downhill toward him and put a tourniquet on his bleeding leg. He took off his pants, covered Meuler with them, and scrambled up to flag a passing motorist...
...which the U.S. has held since 1930. In this week's Seawanhaka Cup competitions, also for Six-Meters, the British challenger Marylette got off to a sad start by snapping her mast in a stiff breeze, while the U.S. defender Llanoria, supposedly left hopelessly behind with a torn mainsail, plodded home to win under Genoa jib and spinnaker...
...nation is more torn between the culture of East and West than modern Turkey. Most of its artists take their stand on the western shore of the Bosporus, doing second-rate imitations of European art. Others occupy the eastern bank, and turn out miniature paintings, inlays and rugs of the sort traditionally associated with Persia. One of Turkey's best contemporary painters is an artist named Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu, who has one foot firmly planted on either side of the Bosporus, paints pictures that could never have been done farther east of Paris or west of Bagdad...
Died. John Home Burns, 36, Harvard-educated schoolteacher turned novelist best known for his 1947 bestselling portrayal of American G.I.s in war-torn Naples (The Gallery) ; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Leghorn, Italy...
...York, as any visitor can see, is the showplace of change, the city that always sports the latest and shiniest in automobiles, literary movements and ballpoint pens, where perfectly good buildings are torn down every year to make way for newer and better ones. Only its politics have stopped moving. Politically, New York is a kind of petrified forest, where reform candidates roam in solidly institutionalized groups, and the stumps of once-great political growths clutter the landscape...