Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas Day, the Japanese returned: 60 bombers escorted by 18 fighters. But this time the volunteers were veterans. Eleven out of 18 enemy fighters, nine out of 60 bombers tumbled to earth. One American, ringed by Japanese planes, zoomed at the enemy, sideswiped a Japanese O-type, tore off its wing and sent it to death, went on to land safely...
...Boston, Harold L. J. Sturtevant, kicked out of the Navy when he tore a swastika from the German consular office in San Francisco last January, applied for reinstatement...
...anywhere, a horrible example was Mayor LaGuardia's own New York City. City Hall, where the Little Flower was trying to be mayor of the nation's biggest city while he was also heading OCD, was in an uproar. Workmen piled into the mayor's offices, tore up floors, laid wires, erected parti tions. Women in blue-grey uniforms, brass buttons and gold epaulets snapped salutes at one another and the mayor, twinkled off in all directions with Mr. LaGuardia's orders...
Torpedoes launched from bombers tore at the dreadnoughts in Pearl Harbor. Dive-bombers swooped down on the Army's Hickam and Wheeler Fields. Shortly after the attack began, radio warnings were broadcast. But people who heard them were skeptical until explosions wrenched the guts of Honolulu. All the way from Pacific Heights down to the center of town the planes soared, leaving a wake of destruction...
...times were kept strictly confidential, Captain Bob Houghton and Fred Phinney looked particularly impressive in leading their respective heats in the three-quarter mile trails, while Bill Palson loped his eight laps in effortless style to finish with a less impressive time. To redeem himself, the smooth-striding star tore through a furious quarter-mile a few minutes later...