Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last days of Syngman Rhee, some 12,000 placard-carrying students, cheered on by thousands of adults, marched in drizzling rain down Seoul's Capitol Avenue one day last week, crying "Drive Park out!" and "People are hungry! Let us eat profiteering millionaires!" Outnumbered police opened up with tear gas; the rioters replied with rock barrages, broke through police lines and drove off nine army trucks being used as barricades. The screaming, cursing clashes lasted all day and into the night, left scores of injured littering the wet pavement. Clamping on martial law in the capital, President Park ordered...
...stragglers; by 11:30 p.m. a good-sized crowd had gathered. Another twenty minutes gave the disturbance time to swell to major proportions. By midnight 2,500 students filled the Square. After the crowd had crippled three trolley cars by disconnecting their power lines, the police moved in with tear gas, a tactic not to be repeated for over twenty years. But the patrolmen's efforts failed. About 1500 students fought their way up to Radcliffe, where they milled about yelling and hooting for most of the night...
...raged onto the field. The terrified ref hurriedly called the game, giving Argentina a 1-0 victory, and fled to the security of a steel-doored dressing room. At that, the entire crowd went berserk. In the center of the field, a small knot of beleaguered cops started lobbing tear-gas grenades into the onrushing mob. Trying to restore order in the upper stands, a hapless policeman was seized by his hands and feet, swung back and forth and hurled to his death on the concrete 50 ft. below; another was strangled with his own necktie...
...back to your area or we are going to lock you up." The marchers stayed seated. "Do you want us to use tear gas on them?" Tawes demanded of Gloria Richardson. "We'll sit here quietly," she replied...
Experienced staff members will show students how to protect themselves, nonviolently, against clubs, tear gas, and water hoses. With water hoses, for example, the experiences in Danville, Va., showed that as the victims were knocked to the ground by the high pressure blasts, their best protection was to cling together, rather than allow themselves to be swept apart as easy prey for club-swinging policemen...