Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lusty Hero. But the sight of a maimed Union soldier changed his plans. He became a passionate supporter of homes and pensions for disabled veterans. He tore the field of Gettysburg from the hands of souvenir hunters, made it a national shrine. He arranged the famed Gettysburg reunions of Blue and Grey. General Longstreet became his bosom friend. "[Your stand at Gettysburg]," wrote Longstreet, "was the sorest and saddest reflection of my life for many years; but today I can say . . . that it was . . . the best that could have come...
...Franklin's volatile cargo-40,000 gallons of aviation fuel, .50-caliber, 20-mm. and 40-mm. ammunition, armor-piercing and incendiary bombs-began to explode. Rockets whooshed through the air. Livid white flashes tore the smoke. Gasoline gushing from open lines flowed across the decks, carried fire four decks below, cascaded over the side and set the sea ablaze...
...fire raids on Nagoya tore a great swath through the center of Japan's third largest city and major aircraft production center. Two raids by more than 500 bombers each burned out nearly one-fourth of the city, hit the Mitsubishi Aircraft works (world's largest in area) and some 30 other military targets. At week's end B-29s turned on Hamamatsu, 60 miles southeast of Nagoya, to bomb more factories...
...during the U.S. Revolutionary War, a British soldier named Duncan McColl was sent on a mission that took him in plain view of sharpshooting Yan kees. Their musket balls shredded his clothing, tore off his cap and the heel of one shoe. At last their officer, awed by the sight, gave the order to cease firing...
...Buried Secret. New bits of evidence were brought up. A farmer boy from Enfield produced a piece of bloodstained lead which, he said, must have been that which tore Bet's ear as she climbed out of the bawdyhouse window. Mary Squires herself further complicated things by suggesting that she was a witch quite capable of being in both Enfield and Abbotsbury at once...