Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copies of the first edition were printed. The paper includes stories on voter registration activities during Alabama's five-day registration period, an attempt to integrate Tuskegee's white churches, a tear-gassing incident in Marengo and the arrest of a civil-rights leader on embezzlement charges in Selma. A long feature described a sharecropper's strike organized by a "Freedom Labor Union" in Mississippi...
Some of Lehrer's numbers were old standbys updated ("Back to good old Dixie, where the jasmine and the tear gas smell jes' fine"). Others, like Pollution ("The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay / They drink at lunch in San Jose"), were written by Lehrer for TV's That Was the Week That...
...Atlantic and Pacific, the mako can swim at 40 m.p.h., bite clean through a 500-Ib.-test wire leader, leap 20 ft. out of the water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death. At Ocean City, Md., not long ago, a tourist walked past the corpse of a mako lying on the dock, carelessly brushing its head with his foot...
...Efrain González, 29, Colombian bandit chieftain, one of the Andean country's most wanted men and leader of a gang credited with close to 250 murders in the past six years; by gunfire, in an attack on his suburban Bogotá hideout by 425 soldiers using tear gas, rifles, machine guns and a 40-mm. anti-aircraft gun, while thousands of civilians looked...
...only forced Samantha to struggle with the role, but hyped it up further with horror stories about a paranoid schizophrenic relative until Samantha was thoroughly psyched and having nightmares. The turning point came when Samantha was watching Stamp sing a merry-mad cockney song and, as she watched, a tear came slowly down her cheek. "We were both elated," Coach Freeman recalls. "That was what we both needed. She knew she was at last involved with the part...