Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Newark swept its streets, assessed its losses (upwards of $30 million) and buried its dead (24 Negroes, two whites), Plainfield bordered on anarchy. Ghetto spokesmen warned during a meeting with city officials that unless looters and minor offenders were released on their own recognizance, "we will tear this town apart." "Is that a threat?" asked one reporter. "This is no threat, baby," replied a Negro. "It's a promise." Most minor offenders were duly sprung...
Three Ringleaders. At an inquiry after the fire, convicts testified that two white prisoners and a Negro had planned the riot, possibly to mask a prison break, possibly just to vent some frustrations. "They really wanted to tear it up," testified one prisoner, but for what reason he could not-or would not-say. Nor could the three ringleaders. All had perished in the blaze...
...imagination if it cannot formulate a scheme whereby the turbine cars, an attempt at progress, can be worked into competition with the now almost obsolete Lotus-Fords. Nothing is so boring as to watch a race between tortoises when there is a hare waiting in the wings to tear up the track...
...police fired tear gas and wooden slugs to chase them away. Then a light machine gun suddenly stuttered from across the Red Chinese border. In the hail of bullets, five Hong Kong police died and twelve were wounded. The British quickly rushed a battalion of Gurkha troops to the scene. The Reds at first sniped at the Gurkha, then held their fire when the Gurkha refused to fire back. An uneasy calm descended on the area, but it was the first time since the Communists came to power in China 18 years ago that British and Chinese troops faced each...
...truth, and the life." Graham skirted politics on his trip, announcing "I am not a representative of any government. I represent the Kingdom of God." But he made several pointed references to the problem of believers living in "difficult" situations. "Christians will always suffer persecution," he said, "but every tear we shed here adds to our glory in heaven...