Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town's power went dead. In the uncertain light of car headlights and flashlights, in the drenching rain, in the flickering light of the fires which broke out, Woodward's citizens tore at the debris of their shattered homes, looking for wives, children, husbands. One-third of the town had been destroyed. Three thousand were homeless. Mrs. Grim and 90 others were dead...
...preferential position of one faith: "This reminds me of the old man in Florence who had two mistresses, one young and the other old. The man's hair was partly black, partly grey. Each of his mistresses wanted him completely for herself. So the young mistress tore out all his grey hair, while the old one tore out all the black. The poor man's head of course was as bald as this Constitution's promises are empty...
...Students were very excited when the last shipment of W.S.S.F. food came to the university," she recalled. "I remember how they tore open the packages immediately, and drank evaporated milk while the lecturer was talking...
...sang a handful of French torch songs, she tore at her blue-black hair, embraced an imaginary lover, went through the motions of strangling herself in one ballad, dropped to the floor in another (after supposedly swallowing poison). The crowd in Manhattan's Cafe Society Uptown loved every minute of it. Her one song in English, Hands across the Table, still carried a Paris label; despite three engagements in the U.S. before the war, she had been careful not to learn English too well...
...wicket keeper (catcher), whose gloves resemble a hockey player's gloves, with less padding. Batsmen wear leg pads something like a hockey goalie's, and thumb and finger guards. When cricket immortals like the late, great, bearded William Gilbert ("W.G.") Grace smote the ball, it practically tore a fielder's hand...