Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadcasting from his home on Montpelier's Main Street, Chicago-born Governor Wills first extolled Vermont's rock-ribbed Republicanism. Then he tore into those who think the G.O.P. can win with almost any candidate. Said...
...soon as the Calama Barracks was safely surrounded, the revolutionists in vited the people by radio to a celebration. Street mobs screamed: "Down with the Jews! Down with the North Americans!" They stoned the U.S. Embassy, looted the offices of the Aramayo mining company, tore the roof off President Peñaranda's house, paraded about with the Presidential bathtub over their heads. Soon MNR members with white armbands stopped the party, but the people of La Paz had shown their dislike for the U.S., had cast doubt upon: 1) the U.S. State Department, and 2) the practical effect...
Almost every day U.S. Army Liberators bombed the Marshalls; once they paid two visits between dawn and dusk. The big bombers pummeled Wot je's drome, tore up Taroa's runways, buildings and anchorage, damaged Jaluit's shore defenses, all secretly installed since the Japs took over this mandate from the unsuspecting League of Nations...
Three Southern Democrats rose up in the Senate to reply, in an extraordinary spate of oratory-Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, South Carolina's Cotton Ed Smith (see p. 14). They tore Joe Guffey to shreds, came close to out-&-out denunciation of Mr. Roosevelt. Senators Bailey and Smith talked threateningly about a new Southern Democratic Party...
...plus the outline of the LCI, must have looked like bigger game. The torpedoes were launched too close to arm themselves and explode on impact. Four, possibly seven torpedoes were launched. One dolphined over the stern of the Who, Me?, another under the stern. One caught the LCI squarely, tore through the steel sides without-exploding. It smashed instruments, and flying debris wounded...