Word: torning
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...frank admission that the Administration had once hoped, but could no longer hope to tidy up that torn country by military action. To get a cease-fire agreement from the Communists, the Administration was resigned to the minimum goal-the restoration of the status quo ante. The problem of a divided Korea, Communist in the north, free in the south, would remain-a smoldering time-bomb under the shaky structure of world peace...
College newspapers and student governments across the country have been attacking the N.S.A. consistently for several months on the grounds that its books are ill managed, its officers inefficient, that it is torn by internal dissension, an steered by Communists...
...ailing Lee-who has to be carried to Assembly sessions-resigned his office in protest. Corruption last week had become a major issue in war-torn South Korea: the National Assembly, like Lee, was sick of President Syngman Rhee's dishonest underlings. Latest scandal: embezzlement of some $800,000 in National Defense Corps funds...
...occupation of South Korea by some U.S. Information Service. Library was full of books on education, agriculture, mechanics, etc., generally practical stuff to help modernize and so forth. The building had been bombed and the books were lying around two rooms, about knee deep on the floor, pages torn, broken glass between them, muddied pages where GI's had stepped through the pile. I bent down to pick up a book. What was it? Obviously, it was "General Education in a Free Society," intact but not looking as if it had been well-read here where society is not free...
Fort Worth Publisher Amon Giles Carter, undisputed king of Texas boosters, checked into Manhattan's old Ritz-Carlton Hotel for the last time before the building is torn down to make way for a 25-story office building. As a farewell gesture, he decided that a party was in order, called for his two favorite waiters, who had served him on his trips to Manhattan for the past 30 years, took them to dinner at the Stork Club, topped off the evening with a nightclub show...