Word: torning
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...past month GPO has been busy experimenting with trial forms, which are modeled generally after the British books. About the size of a small prayer book (to fit easily into housewives' purses), they contain a variety of colored pages of perforated numbered coupons which may be torn out. This makes it possible without warning to hoarders to announce that beginning immediately a given series in a certain color will be the tickets for a newly rationed commodity...
...circles had already read of topflight French painters touring Germany as honored guests (TIME, June 29). They got an equally surprising picture last week of the artist's life in war-torn France. Painter of the picture, done in the gayest of colors, was famed Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, whose Nude Descending A Staircase was the hottest artistic cause...
...India ruled by force and torn by rebellion is an India mortgaged to the common enemy. . . . Such an India will never be saved by British or American troops. To lose India tomorrow by American default today will be to doom China to subjugation, to deliver all the Middle East to the Axis and to force the armies of Russia behind the Urals, regardless of any second front. The sequel for Britain can only be invasion. The sequel for America can only be an endless and all but hopeless war against opponents who will rule the world...
...Machine guns in Nazi positions on the cliffs overhead rained bullets into the boat, wounding or killing half of its men. Eventually, after shifting from boat to boat and surviving a heavy dive-bombing, Munro got ashore for a few minutes. He arrived in his London office in a torn, bloody uniform, haggard from three days and nights without sleep, and wrote for twelve hours straight, keeping himself awake with benzedrine tablets...
...station, staked stiff canvas tents under the northern lights. "Jeez, it was so cold," a Bronx private remarked, "that every time we had hot stew for chow, the goddam stuff froze before we could eat." Behind the troops came trucks, road machinery, supplies, gas, diesel fuel and planks from torn-down CCC camps...