Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported a more violent expression of opinion. Forty-three years ago the grateful Japanese erected a stone monument, near Yokohama, to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened up Japan to western trade and influence. Last fortnight members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Youth Corps, "amidst yo-heave-ho shouts," tore it down. Replacing the Perry Monument is a wooden monolith with inscriptions "to stimulate the spirit to defend the fatherland...
...Crerar's Canadians followed the barrage into Germany. Said one private from Regina: "We're conquerors now, not just liberators." In flooded areas, the Canucks bustled from one "island" to another in amphibious vehicles. They braved the thick Reichswald, gained seven miles in three days, tore the guts out of the German 84th Division. At week's end they were fighting from house to house in Cleve, against German paratroops rushed north from Alsace. Cleve fell...
...young girls and drove them like cows from soldier billet to soldier billet where they were forced to service the troops. One man-the speaker's brother-in-law-hid his two daughters in the cellar and covered them over with blankets. When the Germans tore him out of the cellar, he called out to his daughters, 'Save yourselves!' and the daughters ran out. The Germans shot him dead in cold blood outside the church. We saw the two daughters. One was about 16, the other about 14, and they spoke with animated excitement in curiously high...
...blind, and sculpture became his only means of expression. To his exhausted eyes, his models were a mere blur. To translate forms of muscles and bone, he first had to feel their original conStruction with his hands. He used calipers to measure bare knees or arms, sometimes tore living flesh by clumsy searching for clay perfection. Augmenting a keen sense of touch with the memories of his earlier, visual studies, he continued almost to the last of his 83 years to fashion his distinctively animated dancers and horses. He worked in semisecrecy, in perishable wax and clay, left the figures...
...show business, Broadway's limber-faced Danny Kaye was nevertheless an X quantity as a disembodied voice. An album of records by him had been a sellout, but even his most ardent fans thought of him as a wild-eyed, sharp-nosed, mile-a-minute mugger who tore himself apart with frantic pantomime. Last week he proved he could be funny in the dark...