Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called a press conference. Smiling as if he had just come from a health resort instead of the steam bath of a Senate hearing, Yorty charged that he had been caught in "a trap" set by Bobby Kennedy as part of his "lavish campaign to build himself up and tear President Johnson down. He's trying to ride on his brother's fame and his father's fortune to the presidency. This headstrong young man has become very arrogant." Bobby, said Yorty, had "played the prosecutor," assisted by "a group of smirking, bright-eyed young men passing...
...order during the march. Said Cicero Town Attorney Christy Berkos: "The probability of danger and destruction to human life and property now has become a certainty." Kerner agreed, and prepared to call out the Guard. Major General Francis Kane, Guard commander, grimly made plans to arm his men with tear gas, bayonets and machine guns. "If anyone fires on my men," warned Kane, "my men will fire back, and the same goes if anyone fires at the marchers...
...week's end, London police were mounting a massive dragnet to track down the killers-and issuing tear gas and revolvers to the searchers. Whether the pistols would do much good was another question. Police Federation General Secretary Arthur Evans complained that, because of the old anti-gun tradition, "you could count on the fingers of one hand police trained in the use of firearms...
...Buenos Aires, long a hotbed of Communist and far-left activity. Fearing mass student unrest, he accused all nine state universities of "subversive action," wiped out their traditional autonomy, and put them under the control of the national Ministry of Education. That night, police moved onto university campuses, throwing tear gas and swinging clubs and rifle butts...
...festival's music school, is having a jolly good bash. Festival patrons have showered the musicians with champagne parties, shrimp boils at the yacht club, and enough pralines, hush puppies and fried pompano to fuel Her Majesty's navy. Last week, for those musicians who could tear themselves away from golf, water-skiing and deep-sea fishing, there was a lavish beach party with barbecued chicken, baked beans and 60 gallons of sangría, a bubbly mixture of wine, orange juice and club soda, which was ladled out of a plastic garbage...