Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shed not a tear for this man but feel the lump in your throat for his family, his disgraced uniform, and most of all for his victims...
...needs a $22,500 bathroom [March 29]? No wonder the protesting students, blacks and other underprivileged members of our lopsided society think the only solution to our ills is to tear everything down. I feel one of those "polished stones" at the pit of my stomach...
...listening devices. The expert "swept" Bayh's office-the same suite occupied by Richard Nixon when he was a Senator-with a detector and picked up blips from beneath the floor. The floor was pounded until the blips ceased, but Bayh decided against bringing in jackhammers to tear up the concrete to retrieve the dead bug. During his years in the White House, Lyndon Johnson spiced his private conversations with such intimate disclosures about the personal and political operations of his enemies on Capitol Hill that it seemed to many that he had them under FBI surveillance...
Burn the jacket, tear off the covers, excommunicate the author, and erase every proper noun, a book about Chicago remains, beyond any mistaking, a book about Chicago. The essential juices of the place somehow force any author to write with a special accent about the only city on earth where the likes ol Big Bill Thompson and Al Capone could coexist as civic leaders. In Chicago, there is indeed a certain interchangeability between politics and other lines of work. "The Hawk," Mike Royko writes, "was the outside lookout man at a bookie joint. Then his eyes got weak...
...students had taken over Tigert Hall on the Gainesville campus to demand the release of the arrested black students. About 50 policemen, armed with tear gas and water hoses, chased them from the building. Two hours of skirmishing between students and police followed...