Word: torning
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...band of onetime seminarians and clerics who formed an army just two years ago, the Taliban now control 75% of a country torn by war, first during the 1979-89 Soviet occupation and then as various groups fought for control of the country. The Taliban were hailed as peace-bearing heroes when they captured the capital two weeks ago. In their first week the Taliban shut girls out of schools and ordered women workers from offices and hospitals. The shunning of women was impossible to ignore. At a press conference, two female foreign correspondents were forbidden to ask questions...
...report by the HHS estimate that one million children will be pushed into poverty as a result of the new welfare policies. While the welfare bill, to some extent, may reduce dependency and corruption in the system and encourage a stronger work ethic, the social safety net has been torn out from under millions of families...
Later that year, after he joined the staff of the National Security Council in Washington, Corso discussed these figures with Eisenhower. He recalls that the President was "torn" but did not know how to get the prisoners back short of war. Some in Washington still find this picture of Eisenhower hard to believe. "I have to have very credible evidence," says Senator John McCain, who was a POW in North Vietnam. "I'd have to have a hearing...
...pieces also create an ensemble effect, the discarded yet pristine wreckage of objects waiting to be torn apart in the mind's eye by analysis. Otherwise, they sit, seemingly uncompleted, as if the artist still has to come back to the museum and finish up things whilst glancing at the plans on the walls...
...EMMYS] GARRY SHANDLING, whose The Larry Sanders Show won its first Emmy, said, "All my jokes are based on our winning nothing. Rip Torn has ruined that, thank...