Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Reuter's Correspondent Norman Thorpe came an eyewitness account of her destruction. Thorpe was aboard. "Violent explosions" sent him rushing to the quarterdeck. As the Eagle heeled over, "six-inch shells, each weighing 100 lb., tore loose from their brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung themselves overboard to escape the runaway shells. Thorpe himself slid down a rope into the thick, oil-coated sea, let go, realized with horror that he had not blown enough air into his lifebelt. He thrashed his way to a cork float...
...complete has been the building's protective insurance that the hurricane of 1936, which tore off a part of the roof, did not eat into the life-giving fund, for among the policies was one which covered all damage caused by hurricane...
...lush days of Caruso, World War I and the booming 20s, paunchy Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza built up a $1,100,000 surplus, but depression tore it down again. By 1933 the Metropolitan had to pass the hat for $300,000. Since then, the Metropolitan has been regularly running...
...Schutzstaffel (Elite Guard) had reached well across the German border into France. Having been given full police power in the Reich and occupied territories, the Schutzstaffel plastered Paris with posters proclaiming new cruelties to the Jews. Whereupon men in German army uniforms went through the streets and tore many of the posters down...
Ingrate. In Baxter State Park, Me., Wild Life Protector Joseph Stickney complained that, though a crew was going through the forest tacking up No Hunting signs, a preposterous bear followed along, tore them all down...