Word: teare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site of King's murder, Memphis, flecks of violence ended with a 7 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. Tear gas and smoke bombs thrown by young blacks almost panicked a crowd of about 3,000 waiting outside city hall. As a wind whipped acrid gas through the ranks of demonstrators, youths began smashing store windows and looting. But there were cheers when Senator Edward Kennedy, making a surprise appearance at the rally, eulogized King and his own two murdered brothers, dedicating his public life to the principle "that we should not hate but love one another...
...later in the day, the police had finished their investigations-and Cahalan's office asked that all but twelve of the prisoners be released. Although most of the twelve had shown a positive result in the paraffin tests, Crockett held only two, one charged with possession of a tear-gas device, the other with assault with intent to kill. Neither was charged with shooting the two officers. There was also another aspect of the case. Crockett had told Cahalan to appear personally in court, and Cahalan had not. "It is my considered opinion," said the judge, "that the prosecutor...
...heard rumors about the bust at 3:40 a.m. For the next hour, people woke up and milled around the first floor, where they had earlier agreed to make their stand against the police. They sang radical songs, received wet pieces of linen and instructions for there use against tear gas, and the phone numbers of lawyers who had agreed to defend those arrested...
...well embrace that melancholy observation as his political epitaph. He had promised to renounce power on the expiration of his presidential term next year, and meanwhile to restore parliamentary democracy to his disturbed land. Far from calming the civil disorders racking Pakistan, his renunciation intensified the dissensions threatening to tear apart the fragile unity of East and West Pakistan, and led to still more bloody rioting. Last week, with the disruption beyond his control, Ayub abruptly departed, turning over to the army the world's fifth most populous nation. His voice breaking with emotion, Ayub took to Radio Pakistan...
...word countercharge notable only for its ineptness. Quoting "authoritative circles in Athens," the statement, issued in English as was Seferiades' own message, accused Seferiades of being a Communist agent. It also suggested that he had spoken "to counterbalance and neutralize the inexorable law of wear and tear and oblivion, which was a natural consequence of nothing but biological causes responsible for his intellectual barrenness and absence from the field in literature." Presumably this was a way of saying that Seferiades is senile, but it was difficult to tell. Under the ruling junta, authoritative Greek choruses are not as eloquent...