Word: torment
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...then devised the torment? Love...
China, it appears, will be rescued "from her long torment" not by her own will and heroism aided by our equipment, but by a rescue-squad from outside. . . . Does the Churchill Government fear that China may emerge too strong if she wins substantially by her own manpower...
...inspiring vision of the birth and march of a new nation. From the filmed happenings of the last eleven years in Asia, able John Grierson, head of Canada's National Film Board, has composed a documentary picture-poem showing how "old coolie-China died and out of the torment of war a great young nation arose...
...torment Russia lashed out on the Moscow front like a wounded giant beating a beast that gnaws his vitals. Stalingrad's peril was so great that distraction was necessary. For the desperate offensive, handsome, hard-eyed General Georgy Zhukov chose the Rzhev region, where the German lines bent within 130 miles of Moscow. One morning, early in August, deep-throated Soviet artillery opened up in the birchwood and meadow land around Rzhev. It concentrated first on Nazi battery positions, then on German division headquarters, finally on communications and transport centers. Ground-strafing Stormoviks joined the fray, followed by waves...
Gene Aldrich. Youngest of the three was Gene Aldrich, 22-year-old Missouri farm boy. He was a radioman and gunner, with only 15 months' experience in the Navy. He had been a cook in a CCC camp, and as the days of torment and hunger closed down on the raft, Gene would regularly "cook meals" for his mates. When the sun rose on three empty bellies, Gene liked to recall shooting squirrels for breakfast with his father . . . "It seems there are a lot of squirrels in Missouri," says Dixon dryly...