Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They bellowed across the gorge, swung into column and dived on the Jap. Their 50-caliber slugs tore into the gasoline drums on the trucks, sent them blazing. Their bombs uprooted lorries and tanks, and rolled them down the precipice. The Jap broke, dashed for the bushes, ran into patrols of cheering Chinese who had been left behind at the river crossing...
...Silent Men. They read about China's "second front." All along the lost coast the silent men, the guerrillas, men who plough dumbly in daytime but are very keen at night, rose up and attacked. They raided Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow, Nanchang, Ningpo, Wuhu, Amoy. They tore up the rails of the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway on the central front, tore down 2,000 assorted yards of Japanese telephone and telegraph lines, blew up four bridges. In Canton, down south, they had killed 500 Japanese, had blown up the telephone exchange...
...averaged $230,000,000 a month on preparation for war. Last year the spending doubled, tripled and quadrupled, to $1.5 billion a month. But Pearl Harbor really tore off the brakes. Within two months spending leaped to $2.3 billion, to $3 billion by April. By June it will be $3.5 billion; by September, $5 billion. And still it will reach higher, into a statistical stratosphere...
...does not play in the Garden, considering that the game is overemphasized there. Overemphasized or not, they are fine shows that Ned Irish produces. This year, while the finals were being played, a lady in a box narrowly escaped being slugged by her husband because in her excitement she tore handfuls of mink from her mink coat...
Signal. In Opelika, Ala., all the townspeople turned out their lights for a test blackout when the wardens signaled with their whistles. Then a train tore through town, whistled, and all the lights went on again...