Word: strifetorn
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...years gone by, Indo-Chinese by the millions lined the roads to watch the annual, monthlong, nationwide race, and not even the herd of wild elephants that once stampeded the racers could kill their relish. But where the elephants failed, war and the Communists succeeded. In strifetorn Indo-China, big-time bike racing came to a stop...
...this manufacturer is told as though it contained the solution of all of our industrial ills ; and if Mr. Nash is himself present, as he is very apt to be, he is listened to as if he were a modern Moses come to deliver new commandments to a strifetorn world. Yet, as a matter of fact, I have yet to find a person whose enthusiasm for Mr. Nash and his clothing shop is based upon a genuine scientific investigation of actual conditions in his shop. Churchmen like him largely because he has a genius for quoting Biblical phrases...
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