Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five days later, the City and Federal governments that most of the marchers had elected or supported or were members of ordered 1000 police in riot gear with shotguns and tear gas grenades to surround Resurrection City, and arrest the 100 inhabitants left inside for overstaying their welcome...
...last week the French seemed bent on perilously trying to practice both at the same time. As the campaign to elect a new National Assembly got underway, rioting and violence erupted anew in cities throughout France. For a while it looked as though the explosion of police concussion and tear-gas grenades might blot out the appeals for votes by the 2,260 candidates running on broadly diverse platforms in Metropolitan France's 470 electoral districts...
...into impulsive or capricious action, and to learn to live with crisis, since that is the only way you will live through it." Students worldwide, he said, "have been at the very heart of the greatest and most promising revolution in human history. And when revolutions come, they inevitably tear into the valuable, the precious and the sanctified as well as into the obsolete and the useless." He told students to "get off the mourner's bench; you must not cloak yourself in the mantle of a wailing Cassandra. The great revolution represents birth pangs and not death throes...
...communication among students, Faculty, and Administration was more free-flowing than at any time in recent years. These factions shared a common hope that the Dow controversy would not expand into a larger conflict. Very few people wanted the issue to tear up the campus, nor did anyone wish to leave Harvard despite its imperfections. Barrington Moore Jr., Lecturer on Sociology and a demonstration supporter, wrote...
...first time in my life, I was standing on one side and my government was standing on the other," said one participant. "We finally found out what it was like to be Vietcong," said another. Soldiers were coming at you with gas masks on and sheathed bayonets drawn. Tear gas canisters exploded, and people were being dragged off for "transgressing a police line," like Norman Mailer...