Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent shell fragment. . . tore a hole through my pup tent just beside me one noon while I was resting. I keep this, for I have a certain sentimental attachment for it. Had it been an inch longer, my life would have been a lot shorter...
...balls and the officers' shouts tore at the minds and feet of the men. They ran toward the trees, the sand humps, anything beyond the water which offered cover. Once there, they realized that in most places the enemy fire had been rather light. A soldier said: "I've been wounded. But there is so much blood, I can't tell exactly where." In the darkness, along a 45-mile stretch of the island shore, it was pretty much the same: confusion in the first moments, the slow adhesion of well-commanded troops, the first meetings with...
...last week swarmed Jap jungle fighters in greater force than they had mustered for some time. Anticipating attacks on Salamaua and Lae, they were feeling out Allied positions, possibly planning to open a limited drive southeast to establish better defenses. But the Allied troops, now skilled in jungle warfare, tore into the Japs, killing 100. Boston medium bombers thundered low over the retreating enemy. After five days of scattered fighting the score of Jap casualties was 204. Planes continued to roar overhead daily, blasting supply dumps of an enemy whose supplies had long been bone-thin, strafing stubborn units which...
...Technical Sergeant Art Layfield later told TIME Correspondent William Walton: "When we hit the German coast they were throwing everything in the German Air Force at us. Some thing knocked out half our ship's oxygen system, the half on the pilot's side. Then a bullet tore through the nose. Such a blast of air came in that both pilot and co-pilot began to freeze. One was barehanded, the other had only light dress gloves, and we were above 20,000 feet. Within a couple of minutes the ball-turret gunner had shot down...
...Bismarck Sea. Just what the Japs hoped to accomplish with this formidable force was hard to see: no important shipping was in the area, according to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and the Japs surely knew by then that the American positions were well defended. U.S. fighters tore into the Jap formations, shot down 77 bombers and Zero-type fighters. Ack-ack accounted for 17 more. U.S. loss: six planes (plus, probably, some others temporarily damaged). Jap bombs hit, but did not sink, one Liberty-type ship and one smaller cargo ship...