Word: torning
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...alone. Finland was following Rumania out of the war, more decisively than had feckless Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS). With her went her priceless stores of nickel, manganese and cobalt. Fat, foolish Hungary lay open to the Russians. The "holy soil" of the Reich itself had already been torn by the tracks of U.S. tanks. The haze before the beast's eyes deepened. Soon night would shut...
...around the rue Ste.-Croix de la Bretonnerie, the Germans had set up a ghetto. Only 10,000 of 100,000 Jews who used to live there still remained. They straggled out last week to meet American visitors. Broken by hunger, torture, humiliation, the yellow star of David newly torn from their sleeves, they were Paris' most sadly joyous beings...
...blizzard of confetti, ticker tape and torn newspapers fell dizzily through the afternoon sun into Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza. The crowd wept happily...
...were probing through to the village again. Flag-decked Plouvien maddened the German commander. He sent shells screeching into the crowded streets. The Plouviennois left their dead and wounded in the rubble, streamed into their few air-raid tunnels. Then the Germans drove into the village, looted the shell-torn homes and shops of wine...
...late, Kluge, blinded by lack of air power, had learned what he was up against. In full daylight retreat, spread out on the roads, his troops had been chopped, torn, disorganized by an air assault that had no counterpart in all warfare...