Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mine of the Sunnyhill Coal Co. near New Lexington, Ohio one day last week, amazed mine experts watched a huge (26-ton) machine in action. With surprisingly little noise, it tore into a seam, spewed a continuous stream of coal into a truck that followed. Within a minute and a half, the five-ton truck was almost full; in that time the machine had come close to the average U.S. production per man-day (around five tons). The machine's lone operator apologized because it had taken so long; he was running the digger at slow speed...
...Maine woman, a widow of 45, and she lived alone. When she had made up her mind to commit suicide, she laid her chin on the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun and pulled the trigger. The charge tore through her tongue, palate and nose, went on through the front part of the brain and out through the forehead...
...Sternist prisoners at Jaffa made their own rules, ripped bars from the windows and tore down the steel doors connecting their cells. Guards, who feared that the prisoners might still have hidden arms, thoughtfully left their own guns outside before entering the cell block...
...merely laughed and carried me upstairs in his arms." On other occasions, Billie screamed, threw china, tore draperies off windows. During these spells, Ziegfeld regarded her quietly and smoked long cigars. "The trouble with you, Billie," he once said, "is that when you accuse me, you always pick the wrong girl...
...Cards won three consecutive pennants, two World Series. In 1945, Billy left St. Louis for a fat offer from the "Three Steamshovels," as Boston calls the rich contractors who own the Braves. The team jumped from sixth place to fourth, then to third last year. The delighted Steamshovels tore up Billy's old contract, gave him an even fatter one (his present salary...