Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rocks and Fists. Some troopers tried to drive the mob back with tear gas while other cops rescued the trapped children. As the children ran across the lawn, whites threw rocks at them, and then assailed the troopers. Then the attackers turned their fury on the buses, overturning two of them and smashing all the windows...
...buildings-their function as barrier and blind as well as their pure form-the slaying of the student becomes a certainty-before-the-fact, given the specific illustration of each faction's partial blindness. Degree of sight proportionately indicates degrees of danger in Antonioni's films. Once the tear gas bomb fills the frame with dense smoke, the illogical outcome of the clash becomes an inevitability...
...Tear Gas. The third night, despite a curfew and the arrival of some 300 additional state law-enforcement officers, the students continued their rock hurling. Police attempted unsuccessfully to break up unruly crowds, and from a hovering helicopter equipped with a loudspeaker ordered them to disperse. With only one known exception, the police kept their firearms bolstered, sometimes throwing rocks themselves when they ran out of tear gas. One cop was even photographed using a slingshot...
...change, icy vapors and the weight of fresh snow, they may lose their ability to interlock. They degenerate into coarser, larger crystals and sometimes even into lumps of ice. Such "old" snow cannot maintain a good grip on the soil or underlying layers of snow. The slightest disturbance may tear it free: the sonic boom of a passing aircraft, the stresses created by a pair of skis...
...chlorine in World War I was precedents by tear gas, breaking down the barriers to chemical weapons. Our use of tear gas in Vietnam is again eroding the barriers to CBW-an unwise policy for the United States; for CBW is the poor nation's nuclear weapon...