Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught in the rush of events, pulled along by the strength of those people and what they were talking about, and finally moved to anger by what the soldiers were doing with their tear gas and clubs. At one point, I started screaming, nearly hysterical, at the soldiers to stop what they were doing. I wanted to rip off my press badge and join the demonstrators, but I didn't. I felt sick and useless, watching and not acting. I did not know why I could not act. It was probably fear. I thought, and then I realized that...
...open a small jewelry store somewhere in Boston, because he hates the violence a dealer might possibly meet. Most of the hippies who sell drugs arm themselves with guns or knives, Avery said, although street fights are rare. He himself carries only a small silver cigar-like vial of tear gas that operates like a pistol...
Confusion Compounded. At once, the capital's rumor mills, always idling, started to whirr in high gear with the message that there had been a coup and that key officers had been arrested. Riot police carrying wicker shields and tear gas began to cruise around the city, on guard for demonstrations; there were none. The confusion was compounded when a high-ranking government official leaked word that a coup attempt had been thwarted. Other officials denied there had been such an attempt, and President Thieu felt it necessary to go on nationwide radio and television to announce that there...
...rejects a standing offer to throw the championship fight in return for the commutation of his jail sentence. Broody, badgered and in a kind of psychic agony, he finally turns on his white woman as the symbol of all his woes and throws her out. In a sequence of tear-jerking melodrama rather than honest emotional power, she commits suicide. Cowed and crushed, Jefferson accedes to his arranged defeat in Havana...
...shakes his head at the mention of Vellucci's name, while CRIMSON editors jump at the chance to make him appear a beast that never was on land or sea before. It was page one news last spring when Vellucci sat stony-faced through a young girl's tear-laden hour-long plea that her dog would be strangled if a proposed leash law was passed...