Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans tore a 50-mile gap in the south end of the Don River front Sunday and swept ahead more than 30 miles, to within 200 miles of the Volgs, lengthening the shadow of isolation over the Cancasus oil lands to the south...
...frown rose to his face. What had it said on his card? With a gasp Vag wrenched open the brown envelope he'd been dangling and skimmed its contents. What was this: "Two signatures . . . forgotten . . . five o'clock!" With a cry of anguish Vag glanced at his watch and tore down the path. Beads of sweat stood out on his face...
...desk, flew prodigiously, never lost his grin. Articulate, facile with words, he wrote boys' books about a young flying hero; with rugged Major General Ira Eaker as collaborator, he began turning out books about air power. But the lessons of other days had stuck. Arnold and Eaker tore no hair, snatched no lapels from their readers' coats. Their books were sound, but conservative and well hedged. If Billy Mitchell turns out not to be 100% right, neither of them has anything in print to regret...
Blitz. Near Elbow Lake, Minn., a bolt of lightning tore through the roof of a schoolhouse, sent a splinter through a globe of the world. The splinter neatly removed Japan, left the rest of the globe intact...
...British Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, a vital, soft-spoken Scot, visited Malta and saw with his own shrewd eyes what was happening. He promised to send reinforcements and keep on sending them. On Saturday, when the alert sounded, swarms of Spitfires rose to meet the Luftwaffe attack, tore through the screen of Messerschmitts that was protecting Junkers bombers, sent one after another on flaming nose dives into...