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Word: teare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognition seemed likely to solve few of the Venezuelan junta's problems. Just a week after the junta used tear gas to break up a student demonstration at Caracas' Central University, it countered a sudden oil workers' strike in the state of Zulia by jailing union leaders and threatening strikers with loss of social-security benefits. Foreign observers wondered if the walkout was a dress rehearsal for more serious trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Recognition | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...limpid-eyed, long-haired journalist, Bung Tomo turned guerrilla leader in 1945. He then vowed not to shave until the Dutch left Indonesia, but a year ago his beard got too much for him and he shaved. Sample of his radioratory: "Kill the Dutch, kill the British, cut throats, tear limb from limb, boil them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Merdeka! | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...five days the debate raged. Governors and generals flew in from the hinterland to join in. On New Year's Eve, some 30 leaders gathered for an arm-waving, tear-shedding showdown in the Gimo's red brick residence. The fight-to-the-finish faction tried hard to delete words implying resignation from Chiang's New Year's message. They won out on two points: conditions for peace which the Communists could scarcely be expected to accept, and a delay in the Gimo's abdication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sugar-Coated Poison | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...surplus" Milwaukee beer when both Cambridge and the beer city were celebrating their centennials. He suggested that if the Harvard Community didn't want Plan E government it could secede from Cambridge, and when marching, students roughed him up a bit, he filled Harvard Square with cops armed with tear-gas guns and grenades. Mickey was always full of ideals...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Councilman Mike Sullivan To Be Buried Here Today | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard's history as well as that of Cambridge. He stands alone as the only man who over dared call John Harvard "just another foreign or who never entered this country." And his judgment goes unchallenged when, during a $100,000 lawsuit with the Lampoon, he promised to tear down the Bow Street aviary and build either a saloon or gas station on its razed foundations...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Councilman Mike Sullivan To Be Buried Here Today | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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