Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispelled when I heard a bright-eyed young coed squeal, "Oh, I feel so anti." I left comforted by the thought that the whole simple-minded display had nothing really to do with Viet Nam; it was rather an exercise in group therapy designed to save wear and tear on a lot of fathers...
...result, medics pronounced LeMay "60% disabled," which means he gets 60% of his $16,500 annual retirement pay tax free (but he will still be allowed to pilot his private plane). In 35 years of service, said the doctors, there was bound to be "some wear and tear...
Shouts & Boos. For spectators, the House of Commons is far more fun than the U.S. Congress. Face to face on benches across a narrow aisle, supporters of the government and the Opposition tear into each other with shouts, boos, rudeness and savage wit until it seems as if the honorable members are on the point of coming to blows. In the House, Harold Wilson has been a smash success. He delights in appearing each Tuesday and Thursday to bat down hostile questions from the Opposition. He was eminently savage in his welcome of Peter Griffiths, the new Tory M.P. from...
...encourage concierges, waiters, taxi drivers and the like, each tourist will receive a "carnet de cheques-sourire" (checkbook of smiles), with tickets that he can tear out and distribute (along with his tip) as a reward for especially cheerful service. At the end of the season, 50 beaming Frenchmen with the largest number of smiles will win a brand-new car, a free vacation to Tahiti or the West Indies, or another prize. Will it work? One skeptical tourist official sighs, "Parisians are born complainers-they don't even like each other, not to mention tourists." And he shrugs...
...five years ago, South Korean students swept into the streets of Seoul for a week of rioting that finally brought the downfall of Syngman Rhee. Last week students were on the rampage again with the same strident tone of reckless abandon. First, 2,000 chanting collegians traded stones for tear gas with mesh-masked police. Three days later, a mob of 6,000 swarmed through the capital's main streets. On and on it went, until the daily demonstrations mushroomed to 10,000 youths in Seoul, with lesser eruptions in other cities as well...