Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soon the entire African community, usually docile, was up in arms. Half the city's labor force walked out in protest. Factories, shops and restaurants closed. Street sweepers laid down their brooms. At Bulawayo's fashionable Hotel Victoria, guests were forced to make their own beds. Tear gas and threats to fire all strikers finally restored a semblance of order, but not before black nationalist agitators had made their first successful show of force -and had been given their first martyr...
...voice cried, "Ready-get 'em." Four counter-pickets grabbed the demonstrators and Eddie Summers, a junior from Temple University, made off with a flag. While passers-by yelled, "Burn it, spit on it," Summers applied a borrowed cigarette lighter to the flag. It wouldn't burn. He tried to tear it. It wouldn't tear. He spat on it. Then police, who broke up the fight and then watched the attempted flag burning, moved in and took the banner away...
...choice for reelection, had swapped bombas (personal attacks) with the Nationalist Party challenger, Senate President Ferdinand Marcos, 48. In addition to bombas, Macapagal and Marcos spent $8,000,000, a princely sum in Filipino politics, to swamp the country with a deluge of political pamphlets, placards, and tear-jerking biographical movies. But last week, as 8,000,000 Filipinos went to the polls, the election turned out to be not close at all. Marcos won in a walkaway, with a margin of more than 630,000 votes...
...find the famed Lost Dutchman gold mine in Arizona's barren Superstition Mountain range. "The more I read about the Lost Dutchman," he recalls, "the more I kept coming back to it. Finally, I was sure I knew where the Lost Dutchman was. I was going to tear this thing open. I thought I was going to have it wrapped up in two weeks." So far his search has cost him $80,000. "I had to try something like this because it was so impossible. But if this mine is ever found it's still going to hurt...
...major advantage of bonding is that it eliminates the need for a separate lining. This not only saves considerable labor and cost, but also does away with the loose linings that tend to bunch up in the sleeve or tear loose...