Word: teared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmington, Del., a short-lived general strike called in support of striking truck drivers sent flying squads of unionists roving the city's streets, tossing bricks through windows of trolleys, busses, stores. In Albert Lea, Minn., retaliating for the smashing of picket lines and a tear-gas attack on their union headquarters, strikers attacked a gas machine plant where 150 deputy sheriffs were encamped. They overturned automobiles, set fire to one police car and dumped another into the river, did $15,000 damage to the plant. A truck drivers' strike cut off Boston's fuel supply...
...afternoon the Senate sat placidly putting the finishing touches on the revised Guffey Coal Bill. Passage within ten minutes seemed assured, and contented Senators' minds were beginning to turn to thoughts of cold drinks and warm supper. In their snug, thick-carpeted little chamber, the storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose in the Senate to blame...
They will be able to add ten years or more to their lives. . . . Heavy water would behave in the system like ordinary water a few degrees lower in temperature. It would reduce and slow functional processes, thus reducing bodily wear and tear...
...Nationalists announced they would parade anyhow. The paraders came in contact with police near Pila Hospital in the heart of Ponce. A shot (fired by a Nationalist, according to police) broke the Sunday afternoon calm. The police opened fire with riot and submachine guns, as well as tear gas. When the short battle ended, several thousand onlookers were scrambling to safety, 50 wounded writhed on the pavement, and ten, including one policeman, lay still in death...
...make a half mile dash from the lacrosse field in back of the Business School every day to nose in under the wire when he got in only ten minutes of practice with the blocking backs. This year "Skip" will keep a car handy and use it to tear madly from one field to another to cut minutes of waste...