Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also changed the Spaniard's habits. He is no longer thrilled at the chance to stand in a freezing soccer stadium and cheer for the home team. Soccer attendance has slipped so badly that Real Madrid, European champion for five of the past ten years, has decided to tear down its cavernous Santiago Bernabeu Stadium and build a smaller one. Spaniards are turning to more expensive diversions and status symbols. Madrid now supports 19 legitimate theaters, plus a selection of chic new "theater clubs," exclusive establishments where the up-and-coming young businessman can be seen while he watches...
...personal accusations, for low-level crime and corruption were part of every Filipino's experience. Coupled to it was his own vibrant campaign style. Singing duets with his wife Imelda (Miss Philippines of 1954), stumping the barrios with hard-hitting speeches, screening a biographical movie titled For Every Tear a Victory, Marcos ran away with the race. The 8,000,000 Filipinos who went to the polls gave him a towering mandate to eradicate the islands' ills...
...balance liberal columnists, such as Walter Lippmann, against conservatives, such as William Buckley. Morale was once so low that innumerable staffers quit in disgust, and many were fired. Now, Pulliam runs a happy shop. "We are all Pulliam's babies," says one veteran staffer, actually brushing away a tear...
...Army because of a bad knee. The Pentagon defended its action in a 600-word statement describing Joe's knee in intimate detail. "This knee," said the Pentagon, "has had the medial meniscus [cartilage] removed; it is a knee which shows that the patient has a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament; it is a knee that has pathology on the lateral side, most likely a torn posterior third of the lateral meniscus with osteoarthritic changes." It was, the report concluded, O.K. for Joe to play football, where "he is closely watched and professional assistance is close at hand...
...books about Kennedy, I doubt if anyone has expressed a nation's feelings as well as Euripides in Hippolytus. "On all our citizens hath come this universal sorrow, unforeseen. Now shall the copious tear gush forth, for sad news about great men takes more than usual hold upon the heart...