Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood on a hill watching troops move forward, a shell exploded close by. A four-inch fragment tore across his left shoulder and smashed the tip of his collar bone. A splinter about an inch and a half long pierced his helmet and came to rest against the base of his skull. The General walked to a jeep, rode three hours to a hospital, was operated on, said: "I'll be back there soon. I'm looking for my clothes now. The shoulder doesn't hurt any. After another good night's sleep...
Eagerly we tore off the wrappings and shook out the beautiful white folds. A shower of moth cristals filled the air and settled down gently like the first snow-fall. Now after several days of spring sunshine, the last of these white drifts are disappearing...
With an "are you kidding" attitude implicit in every word, the Crimson, in its Wednesday edition tore into one of the giants of the journalistic world, the New York Times, castigating, the well-known metropolitan daily for its report on the "tragic" state of the historical knowledge of American college freshman...
This morning, I found her lying half-dead near her kennel, which she had tried to retake from a vicious 110-pound Doberman who had replaced her. He tore her to ribbons and she was still trying to rise and fight back. She had run from the Colonel that morning and made a beeline for the spot where she usually met me, and she fought this big dog for what she considered her rightful place. The veterinarian, who likes us both, says he will see her well and will intercede to give her another chance...
Mourning. At home, German citizens tore the newspapers from the vendors' hands. In the black type they read the unbelievable story: "Fighting at Stalingrad has ceased." With bowed heads they heard it read over the radio, not to the blare of the Nazi Horst Wessel march, but to the strains of the tragic old German folk song: Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden (I Had A Comrade). They did not know that some 115,000 officers and men had laid down their arms. But they knew that Stalingrad had been lost, and that it was one of the worst defeats...