Word: torning
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...last week a poll showed that many outspoken critics were whisky drinkers. With a sort of Al Capp gulp, the company ordered the $15,000 bottle torn down...
...Savonarola, fanatic and intolerant. Like most honest men, he is torn with doubts. Only too easily he can see his opponents' point of view. He is a man moved by compassion, who desires only justice and love. It sounds inadequate. In politics he is often oversimple and makes honest politicians impatient. Yet, somehow representing the Christian and liberal tradition of the West, quite untainted by the new philosophical short cuts that lead over the edge, he has made himself a quiet power wherever men consider the rights of underprivileged peoples...
...share in this affair Scott was sent to prison for three months. The attackers were not arrested. His bishop, torn between embarrassment and admiration, released him from his slum parish in Johannesburg, but left him license to preach...
...their due (two curtain calls). Then the audience stood as one man and gave Soprano Flagstad ten more. On the tenth, the Met's gold curtains parted behind her to reveal Met officials and the whole cast lined up on the stage, applauding. A ticker tape of torn programs flaked from the balconies; from boxes nearest the stage, fans threw roses at her feet...
...says: "I'm still amazed. I'd resigned myself to years of shipping it around." What is he thinking of calling it? Cooper points to the attic trunk where he used to hide his manuscripts when friends dropped in: "I've hit my knee and torn my pants on that trunk so many times that I've taken to calling the whole thing just...