Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD SQUARE was a contused chessboard this summer; at times the conflict was open, bricks and sticks meeting clubs and tear gas. But more often the conflict was below the surface, a confused struggle which no one understood. The signs of victory and defeat were subtle; the number of policemen in the Square, of boards on shop windows, of panhandlers in Forbes Plaza and newspaper hawkers on the MBTA traffic island, of signs and posters on the boards covering the front of the Cambridge Trust Co., served as an indicator of the flux of forces controlling the Square on each...
Police from Cambridge, Boston, and the Metropolitan District Commission moved in with nightsticks and tear gas. When the evening was over, five people had been arrested on charges of receiving stolen property, disturbing the peace, and assault and battery. Seven, including two policemen, were treated for injuries...
...uprooted a parking meter and began bouncing it on the pavement, trying to break the coin box open. This was too much for the policemen waiting near the Square. Suddenly, at a signal, Mass. Ave filled with cops firing tear gas canisters...
Looting and burning spread over a 20-block area along the boulevard, a main thoroughfare in the barrio where many of Los Angeles' 1,000,000 Mexican Americans live. Tear-gas grenades popped with bursts of eye-searing smoke...
...longer works, and big red letters spelling EXPLOSIVES have been painted on her sides. In the early morning hours two gangs of longshoremen reported for duty. They had been given two days of crash orientation on the care and handling of gas. Run through a boxcar filled with tear gas, they learned how to apply atropine (the antidote to nerve gas) and how to fit gas masks. The job was not a lark for the 32 longshoremen, but neither were they particularly worried. Said W.Z. Vereen, who with his colleagues relishes the $17-per-hour double pay for the ticklish...