Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian zone. Plastered squarely in the center of the billboard was a red poster bearing the slogan: "Wir haben kein Papier, aber wir sind auch hier" (We have no paper, but we are also here). The poster was signed by the anti-Communist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Firemen soon tore down the poster, but thousands of Dresdeners had enjoyed a good chuckle...
...21st day of Ramadan, direct action had killed some 3,000 people and wounded thousands more. Said one weary police officer: "All we can do is move the bodies to one side of the street." Vultures tore into the rapidly putrefying corpses (among them, the bodies of many women & children...
James B. Meredith and Howard L. Parsons were named teaching follows in Romance Languages; Tore Gjelsvik, of the University of Oslo, Norway, research fellow in Mineralogy; Benjamin Paul, research fellow in Sociology; Frederick Wyatt, research associate in clinical Psychology; Frank B. Greehe, D.N. '39, Dentist in the Hygiene Department; and Lloyd C. Harper, associate in Physical Training to the Hygiene Department and the Harvard Athletic Association...
...screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water, and I knew that never, never again would I feel the same about the Party, the Leader, the Cause. . . . I would work for the government, I would accept Party assignments, I would make speeches...
With the gusto that made him the pre-presidential darling of Argentina's underprivileged, Juan Domingo Perón last week tore into the battle against inflation. "Either the cost of living is lowered or wages will be raised," said he, with an assurance that few economists could conjure...