Word: tear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many memories," mused Freddie Powell, the Jamaican bobsledder, "so many friends." As the Olympic Village was emptying and students at the University of Calgary were retaking their campus (and planning a "Tear Down the Fences Party"), the last looks at the XVth Winter Games were long and longing...
Police fired tear-gas grenades and pumped tear gas into the buildings from portable tanks, filling the entire neighborhood with the acrid, stinging fumes...
...cannot cover sin. It has to be exposed." That was the stern view of the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart last March as he pushed for full disclosure of the adultery and alleged homosexual activities of TV Evangelist Jim Bakker. Swaggart, an emotional, tear-jerking performer whose TV ministry takes in an estimated $140 million a year, called Bakker's behavior a "cancer that needed to be excised...
...even spread to a new region: the Druze villages of the Golan Heights, seized by Israel from Syria in 1967 and formally annexed in 1981. Some 8,000 stone-throwing protesters clashed with Israeli police in three villages. In all, 33 demonstrators were injured by rubber bullets and tear-gas canisters fired by police in quelling the disturbances. In the West Bank and Gaza, at least three Palestinians were killed last week as Arab youths stoned cars and torched buses to enforce a general strike...
...Jansen suffering to the extreme. One suggests a bright ribbon, the other a black armband. But both are important players. They need each other to describe the Winter Games' opening week, with its fist in the air, its head in its hands, a grin on its face, a tear in its eye, and still eight days...