Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purse containing her jewelry, and with Carol at the wheel stepped into his Mercedes "for a drive." They were soon bowling along in the suburbs of Seville, trailed as usual by a police car. Then Carol tramped full down on the accelerator. Over the Andalusian and Estremaduran plains they tore madly for 100 miles. The police were left far behind and, since most telephone and telegraph lines in southwestern Spain were still out of business due to last month's hurricane, there was no way to intercept the fugitive pair. They abandoned the automobile near the frontier, proffered faked...
...crime was committed and there was an arrest, and a young man was thrown into a cell. The crime was great, and the young man was just a boy, and the cell was dark. Life seemed at an end and hell became a living thing. Regret tore at every breath-but regret unlocks no doors, as the young man soon found...
Before he could make human beings of the waifs, Amala and Kamala, Singh had to break them of their deeply ingrained wolf ways. They had to be tied into bed, tore off clothing as savagely as wolf cubs, dreaded daylight, at night howled eerily as they had with the jungle pack, at ten, one and three o'clock. They lapped milk from a dish in imitation of the orphanage dogs, whose company they preferred to other children's. They craved raw meat, and Kamala was once caught devouring chicken entrails which her sensitive wolf-nose had located...
...went to visit these two before they died. He praised them for their bravery, but lamented the fact that their cause had been unworthy of such sacrifice. Upon hearing this insult to his cause, one of the men, who had been wounded in the head by a bayonet, tore the bandages from his head and bled to death before he could be subdued...
...Stuka dived through the crashing anti-aircraft fire, let go and flattened out. In a searing flash, a 1,000-pounder blew a hole in the flight deck to starboard, smashing planes about to take off in the next flight, causing heavy casualties among the mechanics servicing them. Another tore through the side plate, another plunged close by into the sea, its bursting fragments spattering the crew of one pompom...