Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders who promptly ousted Bao Dai. New ruler of Annam, Tonkin and Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
...women coming away from food queues tore off chunks of bread and gnawed at them without waiting to get home. All shops were closed except food markets, and their stocks were pitifully limited. Partial electric service has been restored, but there is no gas yet, and some Viennese families have gone months without one hot meal. From the Vienna woods plod long lines of poor women, many of them barefoot, sweating and staggering under heavy loads of faggots for the city's stoves...
...plane sheared elevator cables, and one elevator fell. One of the plane's engines crashed into an elevator shaft, screeched 79 floors, fell on the cab, carried it down to wreckage in the basement. The other engine and other heavy parts ripped through seven inner walls, then tore a hole in the south side of the building-90 feet from the point of crash. The wreckage fell in a sculptor's 12th-floor penthouse studio in a building across the street, caused another fire...
Worst sufferer was the heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, a 13,000-ton yearling. Her bow began to quiver under the buffeting of mountainous seas; the forward compartments were cleared of men, and just in time. A huge wave threw her 10° to 15° off her course; the next tore off 104 feet...
...Imogene's instant aid had rushed her father, J. O. Dumas, veteran Texas police officer. Father Dumas drawled sadly: "Her mother is all tore up about this...