Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the mob had crippled three trolley cars by disconnecting the power lines, the police moved in. They used tear gas--a tactic unprecedented and not to be repeated for over twenty years. But the patrolmen's efforts failed. About 1500 students fought their way up to Radcliffe, where they milled around yelling and hooting for most of the night...
Other Southern towns were seething too. In Tallahassee, Fla., Negro students paraded, clapping and singing, before segregated theaters. Police moved in quickly, broke up the demonstrations by arresting 257 and dispersing the rest with volleys of tear gas. In Clarksville, Tenn., 300 Negroes, including Olympic Track Star Wilma Rudolph, crowded around a segregated restaurant demanding that they be served. In Baton Rouge, 100 Negro children marched in protest against segregated public facilities. In Oklahoma City, scores of Negroes sat stubbornly for nine hours trying to buy a meal in a segregated restaurant...
...great men of Athens like Pericles are still missing?" Out in Independence, Mo., Harry seemed to agree: "I have never been in favor of erecting statues of people still alive. I told them that when they started this thing-you never know when you'll have to tear it down...
...advice seems sound, since McNamara, who still has the full confidence of the President, has assumed greater centralized power than any previous Defense Secretary. This means that he had better be right in the sweeping decisions that he makes-for a legion of critics stand ready and eager to tear into him the moment they can prove him wrong...
...producing at less than 90% of total capacity, many economists and industrialists alike feel that up to 20% of U.S. industrial capacity is either outdated or inefficient-and that capacity figures are therefore misleading. When steel firms install new oxygen equipment, for example, they may not tear down their massive old furnaces but keep them as standbys. The new process adds to their capacity to produce steel; the old furnaces, though idle, continue to be counted in capacity figures. The result: though steel may be operating at 100% ?f its effective modern capacity, the figures now show it producing...