Word: tear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Palestine Press Service said soldiers used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators in the village of Sair...
...priestess of fertility, this Danielle Steel. After the birth of her ninth child, Zara, and the publication of her 23rd book, both mother and author are doing well. Steel these days enters best-seller lists at the top. Kaleidoscope, one of her better tear-stained efforts, is about a less fortunate lady, Hilary Walker, whose father strangled her mother and then killed himself, who was torn from her two beloved sisters, indentured in foster homes and raped by adolescents of both sexes. But Hilary, with eyes like green ice or emerald fire, is a survivor who goes on to make...
...America's war with itself. "The truth is that these were our children in the streets and the Chicago police beat them up," wrote Tom Wicker of the New York Times , after he watched Daley's cops wade into the scruffy, taunting, passionate young. The air was filthy with tear gas and Yippies' stink bombs and obscenities and a palpable, murderous rage. The American id thrashed up into view of the world. There were both gaiety and terror in the spectacle, and a sheer bizarre surprise...
...Chicago policemen as big as beer trucks thundering through tear-gas- poisoned air and clubbing with nightsticks. The answering, taunting obscenities and rage, and after that the McLuhan-wise chorus from those being clubbed: "The whole world is watching!" Then, through the death stench of the Chicago stockyards, inside the Democratic Convention, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff on the podium denouncing the "gestapo tactics" of the police, and down on the floor, in the Illinois delegation, Mayor Richard Daley, face contorted, screaming at Ribicoff. TV's nation of lip-readers & thought they saw Daley emit the words...
...quick to use lethal countermeasures. Rabin continued to insist that "whenever there is clear-cut danger to our troops, they have orders to use live ammunition." Army officials, however, announced that future draftees will be trained in crowd control and supplied with nonlethal riot gear, including rubber bullets, tear- gas grenades and defensive shields...