Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watervliet, Rock Island and Springfield Arsenals they wheedled a little obsolete equipment; from many a New England textile factory they got a machine or two, one 75 years old. A few new ones, destined for already-fallen France, were lifted from the docks. In its Hamden plant, High Standard tore down the outmoded machines; redesigned, rebored, rebuilt them to fit its production line. On March 15 production began; on April 19 the first gun was finished. Production is now 150 a day. There has been only one reject...
Having spent my first 18 years in the country nearest the Isle of Man (no, not England), I have long been aware that when a Manx cat is suspended by its tail, its eyes drop out. But what is this about rumpless chickens [Tore, Oct. 6]? Kindly elucidate...
Died. Mme. Georgette Leblanc, 66, longtime intimate and "inspiration" of Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck; after a year's illness; in Le Cannet, France. In 1893, entranced by Maeterlinck's poetic mysticism, which she discovered after a chance reading of his essay on Emerson, she tore up her contract with the Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained...
Mexico. John Gunther tore down the west coast of South America, then looped back north through Brazil and the West Indies. He began with Mexico, where he "flew over pyramids bigger than those in Egypt ... ate limes stuffed with coconut . . . found that Mexico is the country where the letter 'x' is pronounced three different ways... and where during one civic riot the taxicabs charged mounted cavalry like tanks-and won." He also talked to President Manuel Avila Camacho, who is "about as colorful as a slab of halibut," but "steady, cautious and efficient." In Mexico Gunther shed some...
...Russian seaport and No. 3 industrial center in the Ukraine, was unimpressed. It was bombarded by the French after the Bolshevist Revolution of 1917. The city was built almost entirely of stone; during the famine of 1921-23 the inhabitants razed wooden buildings for fuel. Odessa's citizens tore up the ultimatum, settled down for a siege...