Word: wartorn
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...financial burden of Korea [piled] deficit on deficit, debt on debt, and tax on tax . . . Shooting and bloodshed in Korea are ended, at least for the time being . . . Our every effort is at work to fashion a lasting, sound and equitable peace and substitute reconstruction for destruction in that wartorn land...
TIME's readers have also done their share toward helping the children of wartorn European countries. Mrs. Lenore Sorin, a director of the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, tells me that as a result of four advertisements in TIME in the past year, she has received "adoptions" ($180 a year toward the care of a particular child) and extra contributions totaling well over $100,000. Mrs. Sorin hopes that soon her organization will be able to start helping children in Korea as well...
Rives explained that the purpose of the trip was two-fold: First, "to help in the rebuilding of a wartorn European country; and second, to bring American students in contact with European students in a common, constructive, peaceful purpose...
...will not be able to keep Europe democratic or free if we and the British pull out. Europe this summer, and for a long time to come, will be too wartorn, too weak, too submissive, too morally bankrupt and too chaotic to stand on its own feet. Democracy must be encouraged and preserved-if necessary against a background of power. Or are we ready to despair and to give Europe over to the Titos...
...Well might Italians, hungry, wartorn, defeated, alarmed by Tito's claims and without even Orlando to plead their cause, ponder upon the aging symbol in the Palazzo di Monte Citorio. "Now," said one Italian bitterly, "we have only Sir Noel Charles [British member of the Allied Advisory Council] to defend...