Word: teare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haughie, circumstances were a bit different. His parents had come to see the game, and "they helped me to forget--I couldn't be brooding while they were here," he says. "You have to forget, anyway. You can't go through the week with a tear still in your...
Sifting the Evidence. In Salt Lake City, summoned by Mrs. Connie Johnson to catch a prowler, police fired two tear gas shells into her attic, set the whole second story afire, after inspection of the charred wreckage reported: "No prowler...
...lightning. Boy, do I remember that lightning. I never exactly heard the thunder; I felt it. I remember falling through hail, and that worried me; I was afraid the hail would tear the chute. Sometimes I was falling through heavy water-I'd take a breath and breathe in a mouthful of water. Sometimes I had the sensation I was looping the chute. I was blown up and down as much as 6,000 feet at a time. It went on for a long time, like being on a very fast elevator, with strong blasts of compressed air hitting...
Last week, on Youlou's orders, 300 police moved in on the overcrowded squatter colony, tried for two hours to persuade the Matswanists to leave peacefully, then attacked them with clubs and tear gas. Gradually, as they fell back, about 200 of the Matswanists were pinned against a wall, and would not move. The cops grabbed them one by one and hauled them away in trucks. But when they reached the rear ranks of the crowd, police saw a melancholy sight: 36 Matswanists, including one woman and a child, had been pressed back, temporarily blinded by the tear...
When Turkey's former President Ismet Inonu hit the hustings last May as leader of the opposition Republican People's Party, the Democratic government of Premier Menderes used tear gas to disperse the crowds that gathered to hear Inonu, and stood by while bands of toughs pelted the 75-year-old national hero with stones (TIME, May 11). Inonu's tour was part of a vigorous campaign by the Republicans for 21 vacant seats in the National Assembly scheduled to be filled in byelections this fall. Even if the Republicans won all 21 seats, they would...