Word: torning
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...lone building that had escaped the Nazis and heard the same announcement. To them it meant a further cut in rations that stood, in midwinter of 1946-47, at 600 to 800 calories per day. American doctors claim adult humans cannot survive below 900 calories daily. At Peiping, in torn China, remnants of Harvard's Yenching University and other learned institutions ended their trek back from resistence headquarters to face ruined buildings and the task of rebuilding them with students who barely keep alive on the allotted diet...
...heart is torn...
...likes to snap it around and make like a slave-driver. But all his employees know that Ed is just kidding; he's really a card. His office door is always open, and to make perfectly sure that nobody gets any uppity ideas, Ed has had interoffice partitions torn down in Mutual's Manhattan offices...
...under the title of United China Relief during the war, when it was instrumental in sending food, clothes, medical supplies and other relief supplies to the war-stricken millions of Asia. Reorganized recently, it is carrying on with this work as well as a reconstruction program for war-torn areas...
State, in other words, would open the U.S.'s end of the street to any nation which would do likewise. State would demand relaxation of export-import controls, preferential tariffs, bilateral barter and other devices by which the war-torn countries of the world have sought economic security. State would demand the relaxation of state trading monopolies...