Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like two vast prehistoric monsters lifting themselves out of the swamp, half-blind and savage, the two great totalitarian powers of the world now tore at each other's throats. But the time gained was no gain unless urgent use was made of it. No good use would be made of it if the U.S., pleased to see Naziism fighting Communism, relaxed its defense efforts...
...years ago the city, having already banished Sixth Avenue's trolley cars, tore down its elevated. That only lifted Sixth Avenue's veil. It needed its face lifted...
Under the silent city, waiting for the bombers in the half-light of the world's largest dugout (estimated capacity: 30,000), hundreds of Chinese died. They died not of bombs but of suffocation, in mad frenzy, as they clawed and tore at each other to fight their way to fresh...
...four pesos (80?), 1,000 subscribers in provincial Querétaro got so mad they lifted their receivers right off the hook-and left them off. Not till the rates came down again, said they, would they put back their receivers or pay their bills. Last week, local managers tore their hair trying to figure how to beat the strike...
I.N.S. Correspondent Merrill ("Red") Muller declared with heat that the picture censorship "stinks." Collectively the correspondents tore their hair over the futilities of the M.O.I...