Word: tore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saipan, at least two divisions of U.S. marines, plus Army infantry, tore into the bloodiest Pacific fighting since Tarawa. The Navy's guns had admirably covered their landings, but the island was too mountainous for either naval guns or air bombing to decide the inland fighting...
Three other battalion commanders in our northern force were wounded the first day. One of them, one of the best known figures in the armed forces, was struck by a 13-mm. shell which punctured his lung, and five pieces of artillery shrapnel which tore into his arm and wrist. I saw him in a foxhole just after the doctors had dressed his wounds...
Beyond Rome the three main highways leading north were clogged with German motor equipment. Alexander's tactical air force tore savagely into them with guns and bombs. In the hills and fields, German foot soldiers backed northward, fighting stubbornly while the main bodies sped away from trouble. Allied units pressed closely. At one point they lost contact entirely with the retreating enemy, closed up fast to regain...
Wake and Midway. On that day four battered old Grummans of Fighter Squadron 211 clattered up into the air over Wake Island and tore into the Jap naval force creeping over the horizon. In that pitiful and heroic last stand the Marine flyers set one enemy ship afire, sank a cruiser. Said a presidential citation: "The courageous conduct . . . will not be forgotten as long as gallantry and heroism are respected and honored...
Argentine schoolchildren got a lesson in civics last week. Short time ago the Ministry of Public Instruction ordered every last one of them to write an essay on an arrogant speech by President Edelmiro Farrell. High-school Student Martha Grinberg had an arresting commentary: she stood up in class, tore her copy of the speech into little bits...