Word: torning
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...Torn Fabric. Rumors aside, the admitted facts added up to an Army crisis of the utmost gravity. If even a small percentage of officers had been affected, then German fighting power was far more seriously weakened than if all those officers had been lost in a single day of combat in the field. Germany's is a close-textured Army; a few threads plucked from it could destroy the fabric, especially when it is stretched taut over three fronts...
...outer walls of Germany's Fortress Europe shuddered and cracked under heavy Allied pressure. Three widening breaches had been torn in the East Wall, a fourth was opening and Russians were pouring in. The Atlantic Wall was cracked in Normandy; the fissure opened by that wedge seemed to point straight to Paris. In northern Italy there was a bad breach that might spread to the weakened Balkan wing of the fort. Smaller cracks were opening within the fortress itself-the result of serious underground strains in France, in Yugoslavia, in Denmark...
...does not understand that the city of today must be torn down so that the city of tomorrow can be replanned and rebuilt from the ground...
...graduation he was torn between music and law. He plunged into both. When a famed voice teacher, Percy Rector Stephens, encouraged him to continue his voice training in New York, he saw an even more interesting opportunity. The Professor's secretary, a gifted mezzo-soprano, Frances Eileen Hutt, of Sapulpa, Okla., was also going to New York...
...Pieces of cowling and window panels, supposed to be many times stronger than any load that could be put on them, are torn off like paper...