Word: teare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line of car lights signaled the coming of the police. There were 40 cars in all, including 24 radio-equipped squad cars and a bus-sized Black Maria loaded with 40 policemen and supplies of tear gas, submachine guns, automatics and carbines...
...classes joined hands and whirled in dizzy circles around the tree, "till all the college is swaying in the unwieldy ring," as Lowell reported it. A wreath of flowers was hung from one branch, and there were horse battles among the crowd to reach the wreath and tear out a handful of became more savage. Undergraduate organizations sent picked goon squads to crab the flowers, and the Tree Exercise "uniform" changed to old clothes and football outfits...
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29--(APE)--One of the stormiest legal disputes in year threatened to tear the Supreme Court apart tonight as Justice Felix Frankfurter, former southpaw mound ace, threatened to resign from the nation's highest tribunal in protest of Chief Justice Vinson's ruling Thursday that Lionel "The Toy" Train was unconstitutional and could not play in yesterday's classic, won by the Crimson...
...Stanford Research Institute and financed by the Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice as irritating if suspended in oil droplets. And there was no doubt that Los Angeles' smog contained...
...reported that a "priest from St. Paul's" had visited them Tuesday night, and advised them to take the publication off their stands, while a third said he had received a phone call from a woman who told him that "a bunch of the boys would be over to tear up the books" if he didn't get them out of the shop...