Word: torning
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...During the war I helped bomb the people of Europe. We left cities in flame and people torn and dead. That was war. But what of the children in those cities, and what of the men in the planes which went down? Do I not owe them something? Does not every human being stand condemned for their death...
...Dissenter. In many ways his 26 years in the upper house were sad and unproductive. He was a dissenter during Republican administrations. When Franklin Roosevelt came to power he remained a dissenter-torn between loyalty to his party and his conservative's fury at New Deal policies. He fought them endlessly, bitterly...
Adolf Hitler had always shouted (and his Germans had noisily agreed) that the Treaty of Versailles must be torn to shreds. He had his wish...
Carefully Antonio bandaged his eyes with torn bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped...
Four years of bitter war and a year of uncertain peace had passed since the battleship King George V slipped into Annapolis, carrying Lord Halifax to his new post as war-torn London's Ambassador to Washington. Last week, on the eve of homegoing and retirement, the tall, mild statesman looked into the troublous future, saw Anglo-American friendship as "a patch of good firm ground on which we can stand and be secure." Said...