Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the Beginning. In Quebec draft-age youths paraded, sang A Bas la Conscription! (Down with Conscription!) to the tune of God Save the King, and tore down Union Jacks. But generally, French Canadians heeded the timely and wise admonition of Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis: ". . . Have respect for the laws." There were some disturbances elsewhere. In six British Columbia towns, drafted troops of the Pacific Command paraded noisily and shouted: "This is only the beginning. Blame the Government!" They had just learned they were to be among the first to go overseas. At Vernon, B.C., the soldiers mauled...
...that time mortar and artillery shells were dropping on the slender beachhead every 30 seconds. Colonel Crowe covered his chest wound with his poncho, covered his face with his helmet. A shell fragment tore through the poncho, pierced his chest in two more places. Five other fragments hit him in the left arm and shoulder, another in the right leg. A sliver tore off his thumbnail. A doctor who examined him said, "Not much chance...
Somebody on the deck remarked that this was a book real he-men should read. It was called Kiss the Blood off My Hands. They tore it apart, chapter by chapter, and passed it around...
...Army . . . Carl My dans came from Italy to join General de Lattre's fighters in the march on Marseilles (to the best of our knowledge, My dans was the only correspondent with the French forces) . . . and Photographer George Silk flew in from Italy in a British glider which tore itself almost to bits Silk on an antiglider post, bounced right across a road, crashed head-on into a ditch at 50 miles an hour (Silk was badly banged up, counts himself lucky to have come out of the wreck alive...
Canadian artillery had been ranged on the road for days. Now it opened up on the road with flaming fury. The first salvos tore the column apart, littered the fields with twisted guns, tanks, the dresses, coats, blankets and chinaware the Germans had pilfered...