Word: torning
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...eastern suburbs of the city, coolies toiled on two mass tombs. Ashes and bodies of thousands of unknown invaders would rest there. In the northern and eastern suburbs torn and twisted Japanese corpses were being piled in neat heaps of 15 to 70 bodies each...
...wished to make some gesture of sympathy toward the unhappy Viennese. The more powerful Berlin opera, which would be flattered to get Flagstad, is not popular among Norwegians. When it played in Oslo, the opera was sold out, but the house was empty. Norwegians had bought all the tickets, torn them...
White and shaken, the young lieutenant picked himself up and examined his peaked campaign hat on the ground. The shot had torn it clean off his head. Even the tough top sergeant was moved. Said he: "With the lieutenant's kind permission, may I remark that the rest of the lieutenant's life is now on velvet...
...average college student is torn between the desire to pursue his studies and desire to serve his country. In a hurriedly formulated plan, a procedure has been worked out which would enable the student to, in a worthy measure, do both. The plan, which calls for the volunteer organization of Civilian Students' Emergency Service Shock Brigades, under the supervision of the Committee of Public Safety, was outlined to several Faculty members of local universities, most of whom have given their approval...
When Japanese bombers whipped over the frowning fastness of Diamond Head last Sunday morning the book of traditional U.S. naval strategy in the Pacific was torn to shreds. When the Japanese bombs had ceased to fall in the defense-crammed area around Pearl Harbor the book was out of print. Japanese tactics, which some called suicide war and others, less hopeful, the typical spring-legged assault of the determined underdog, called for revolutionary strategy...