Word: teare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cooperative house at 3 Sacramento St. fashioned a 12-foot statue of a nude kneeling woman which drew a neighbor's complaint. University police approved the statue, and a member of the Cambridge squad termed it "a work of art," adding "it would be a shame to tear it down." The storm also stopped construction work on Quincy House and the new Leverett Towers, and shut down the Radcliffe administration office. Though the University held classes as usual, many 'Cliffies, fearing the long walk, stayed in bed. The Coop closed at 4 p.m. to allow employees time to get home...
...Hesitate." Late in January the Central African Federation government began to hear disturbing reports about a secret meeting of Nyasa nationalists in a forest near Blantyre. Within days, the first incidents began-an attack on two white veterinarians, a demonstration in Kotakota that had to be broken up with tear gas, the stoning of European cars in Blantyre. Then one morning in the wooded northern tip of Nyasaland, something far more serious started: a series of apparently coordinated attacks against government airfields and installations...
...action. In Blantyre police and rioters collided in the streets, and blacks, hiding in the tall grass along a stretch of road that was promptly tagged the Missile Mile, ambushed and stoned cars. At Lilongwe the King's African Rifles fired on a crowd, while planes dropped tear gas bombs...
...Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics, highest scoring outfit in the N.B.A. (average: 116.1 a game), went on a tear at Boston Garden against the Minneapolis Lakers, won 173 to 139-highest score ever made in a league basketball game...
...cancan girl, that Vicky Autier (a protegee of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor) flashes with calculated abandon. Compatriots abroad in a big city. the three women speak of each other with affection. "If we were all in Paris at the same time." admits Lilo, "we would probably tear each other to pieces." Explains Vicky: "Lilo and I are similar, but she is a little more Folies-Bergére than...