Word: tear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feelings about the two-year- old Wall that ran like a jagged scar through Berlin: "Ich bin ein Berliner." His message was more than a metaphoric statement of solidarity with the people of that divided city. It was an appeal to the Wall's Communist architects to tear down the 26-mile-long concrete monstrosity. Today the Wall continues to pierce the hearts of Berliners every bit as effectively as its pipes, barbed wires and other sharp obstacles once sliced the bodies of desperate refugees. But for the first time since Kennedy's appeal, it seems possible that the Wall...
Critics' Voices will continue to expand its horizons. Coming soon will be reviews of home-entertainment videos and, perhaps, computer software. "Ideally, this is the kind of page that readers will tear out and tack up on their bulletin boards," Sachs says. "We want it to be indispensable...
...that memorial in front of your building, Bubba, and someone is bound to come over and tear it up," Dees was told earlier this year by Calvin Whitesell Sr., an attorney for the city during the Freedom Rides of 1961. "George Wallace once said to me," Whitesell recalls, "that the thing that always kept the South down was that the minute the South recovered from the Civil War, they started sending money to the North for bronze statues. We've got a bunch of them here, and I think you'll find that most people don't give a damn...
...Teso's failure to hand in the reports, Healy said, "What are we going to do? We aren't going to tear down parking garages...
Police said the intruders did not use any weapons except for one tear gas grenade they detonated when forcing their way into the compound in central Seoul. Damage from the tear gas grenade, which was apparently captured police equipment, was described as minor...