Word: torning
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...engaged to an English girl. Now Tom explained to Liana that he had not yet had the courage to break off his engagement with his English fiancee. However, Tom took Liana to meet his father, a retired clergyman, and his mother. They took Liana's part and gave Torn the courage to explain the situation to the other girl. The engagement of Tom and Liana was announced in the Times of London on May 10, 1947. Happy Liana departed for Athens to buy her trousseau. It was quite a trousseau, including two silk dressing gowns costing...
...church in Rome of which Cardinal Mindszenty became titular head was Monte Celio's 5th Century rotunda of St. Stephen the first martyr (about 50 A.D.).* On the walls of St. Stephen's are 34 frescoes showing scenes of Christian martyrdom-St. Margaret, her breast torn with hooks; Bishop Artemius, crushed between stone slabs; Bishop Simeon cut to pieces with knives. But not all martyrdom involves death. One fresco at St. Stephen's tells of a 4th Century persecution of Christians by King Unericus in North Africa. The description reads: "Those who talked and raised their hands...
...model is an epic of minute historical research. Unlike the first model--now on display in Widener--which shows contemporary Harvard, this one will present buildings most of which were torn down long ago. The problem for its builders was what to base their scale models...
...then they should be given a chance to do so. And certainly such a glimmer exists, at the very least. So let us find out just what Stalin has in mind. Let us launch a peace counter-offensive, and perhaps everybody can live happily ever after in a world torn by peace...
...fighters. Then came the parade with massed flags and flashing-legged columns of infantry, floats, Sousa rhythms of military bands, and, at the tail end, a circus calliope. The sunflash from the headlamps of the motorcycle escort made the TV image blur and throb. The hat-waving crowd cheered, torn paper drifted across the screen, and the cameras caught the 32nd President of the U.S. sipping coffee as the parade rolled...