Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward downtown drug and variety stores, bent on sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. Town, county and state police, backed by three fire-department pumper trucks, blocked the marchers. "Let the leaders come forward," ordered police. Replied the students, surging on: "We are all leaders." Fire hoses and tear gas scattered the Negroes, threw them into choking confusion. Police arrested 350 students, marched them to a makeshift stockade behind the wire fence of the Orangeburg County jail's parking lot. At week's end they were being tried in relays of 15 for breach of the peace before...
Your story on Caryl Chessman [Feb. 29] brought to mind Mark Twain's comments in Tom Sawyer: "The petition [for Injun Joe's pardon] had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a committee of sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the Governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot. Injun Joe was believed to have killed five citizens of the village, but what of that? If he had been Satan himself, there would have been plenty of weaklings ready...
...left the stadium, thousands followed, pressing around his open Land Rover, which led the way toward the African locations. Alarmed, the police read the Riot Act through a loudspeaker, hurled tear-gas bombs, and advanced in a baton charge, finally dispersing the crowd in a hail of stones. But all that night in the dark streets of the African sections, the familiar cry echoed: "Uhuru...
When Billy himself spoke in copper-mining Kitwe, police ringed the area with riot cars and motorcycles, and a steel-helmeted platoon with tear gas and fixed bayonets stood by while 15,000 gathered to hear the Graham gospel. A crowd of young nationalists yelling "Freedom!" stoned cars on their way to the rally, and during Billy's talk the police were ready to take over his powerful public-address system at the flick of a switch. But all stayed quiet, and 1,400 made "decisions for Christ...
Last week the last act came for the Roxy. Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf announced that for $5,000,000 he had bought the theater from Rockefeller Center Inc., which bought the Roxy in 1956. He plans to tear it down to build a $12.5 million, 900-room, 600-car-garage addition to his Taft Hotel, making it one of the largest hotels (2,500 rooms) in New York. Zeckendorf, who, like other large realty operators, has had trouble rounding up all the financing needed to construct his 2,000-room Zeckendorf Hotel, is still negotiating the financing...