Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Booby Traps & Bridges. It is an ugly, elusive war, fought with all the clever stunts in the guerrilla's handbook, not all of them deadly. Gangs disguised as official mosquito-spray teams walk into villages to confiscate farm equipment in the name of the government; sometimes they tear up peasants' identity cards to disrupt local administration; the Communists even managed to sabotage the national census by substituting falsified lists in some areas. The Viet Cong, which is what the Communist Vietnamese are called, are everywhere: tossing grenades into isolated villages in the rice fields in the south, sowing unrest among...
...Randolph and the choppers strained to catch their first glimpse of it. Automatically the small, tough drogue parachute opened at 21,000 ft., checking the capsule's falling speed. One minute later, the great, striped, red-and-white main parachute (with a 6-in. triangular tear in it) blossomed like a zinnia and gently lowered the Liberty Bell 7 toward the almost waveless sea. Four choppers flailed toward the impact point...
...minor grille changes. Pontiac will have a big car, the Grand Prix, with such pizazz optionals as four-speed manual transmission and tachometer. The compact Tempest, with a new convertible model in the works, will sprout two tiny ridges that are not quite tailfins, will change the traditional split-tear grille to a horizontal, continuous...
Buenos Aires School of Law and Social Sciences. A left-wing student group invited her to lecture on Yankee imperialism. She had barely opened her mouth before students outside the hall began whistling and catcalling, "Let's swap Che's mother for a tractor!" A tear-gas bomb popped in the auditorium, rocks smashed through windows and doors. The battle raged for more than two hours until a Molotov cocktail set the place afire...
...Chicago to harangue the local branch of the N.A.A.C.P., Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell urged the ouster of A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany on an unexpected charge: absenteeism. Noting that Meany refused to "tear himself away from the Florida sunshine to testify on the important minimum-wage bill," Powell, who usually plays his own hooky in Puerto Rico, evaluated the onetime Bronx plumber as "stupid" and "absolutely zero as a lobbyist and leader...