Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early last month Quadros stood in his office with a visiting publisher, pointed through the window at the round modern dome at the end of the Congress Building. "If I could tear that down, Brazil would be better governed," he said. Three weeks ago he told an aide that he had a good mind to resign when Congress, after allowing 19 Quadros vetoes to stand, overruled Veto No. 20. "He was furious," says the aide...
...family an engraved invitation to run to their shelter? There won't be many trips or vacations in that family, will there? Or they may be caught in some very unfriendly town by people just as unchristian as they are, and then what good will their guns and tear gas do them? I doubt the warning will come when we are all within our homes, but more likely when we are at business, school or just traveling along a highway...
...meter rule. West Berliners remained free to travel the border streets as they pleased. Overhead, U.S. helicopters kept constant watch. Next day, when one water cannon fired a stream at a crowd of West Berliners, G.I.s of the 6th Infantry Regiment, who were also splattered, reached grimly for the tear gas grenades that they carried conveniently on their shoulder straps. The squirting stopped abruptly...
...pointed out its four-inch-thick wooden door: "This isn't to keep radiation out, it's to keep people out." Davis is also prepared in the event that some of his shelterless neighbors get into his shelter before he does. "I've got a .38 tear-gas gun, and if I fire six or seven tear-gas bullets into the shelter, they'll either come out or the gas will get them...
...Tear them down, said the practical prelates, and sell the sites. At city prices of close to $300 a square foot, this would provide a fabulous windfall with which to build new churches in the suburbs, raise clerical salaries and finance overseas missions. The mere thought of such desecration gave antiquarian Anglicans the pip: the City's churches-especially Wren's-were national treasures, they cried. The war damage should be repaired, and the churches could be turned into museums to remind traipsing tourists and native agnostics of the Church of England's ancient glory...