Word: torning
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...cobblestoned courtyard outside Paris the Nazis lined up 50 French hostages. The firing squads squeezed their triggers, and the Frenchmen sagged to the stones. Presently their bloody, bullet-torn bodies were dumped into horse carts and hauled away...
...reviewed by shapely Carol Bruce in New Brunswick, N.J. got out of control in front of the stand, turned a patriotic rally into a juvenile riot of yelling and pushing. Result: bruised Miss Bruce went scooting out a back way and off to New York with a pair of torn stockings...
...undertaken was the painting of the walls. This the University did but the students bought cream-colored cloth with which to cover the blackboards, remnants of the old class-room days. Dean Sperry, heartily agreeing with their plans, presented them with the old altar from Appleton Chapel, since torn down to make room for the Memorial Church, and with strips of red carpet, left-overs from the material used in the University church...
...mention that General Dyer was relieved of his appointment in consequence, and died a broken man-in spite of the fact that many of those best able to judge feel that, if he had not taken his drastic action, once again India would have been torn end to end in mutiny and civil...
...diplomatic tug-of-war between the U.S. and Germany for the favors of Vichy was so tough last week that worn old Marshal Petain must have felt that he was being torn limb from limb. For the moment, U.S. diplomacy seemed the stronger, but there was always the chance that Germany would abandon diplomacy for destruction...