Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...train-and an $85,000 bill from Amtrak. As she settled into her seat, the ample Maxine also had a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a "pair of thermal underwear that would stretch around a live oak tree," and a new lowcut, black Inaugural dress. "We're going to tear up Pennsylvania Avenue," she chirped...
...Nile Hilton and the Egyptian Museum. "From other roads," she reported, "appeared still more demonstrators, converging on the People's Assembly. Now the protesters were no longer chanting slogans; instead, there came defiant cries from the mobs, the sharp crackle of breaking glass and finally the bark of tear-gas guns and rifle fire." Before Gauger got safely home that night, Cairo's flying squads of riot police with their Plexiglas face masks, shields and staves were in control. The last of the rioters were fleeing, holding their battered heads. In a city noted for round-the-clock...
Tuesday, January 11--The alarm rang early, but had I known that the french toast at breakfast would tear as easily as a wet kleenex, I would have stayed in the room and eaten my Scotties...
...King and many others wanted to believe that if we could tear down the discriminatory signs, obtain some favorable rulings by the courts and push the Congress to pass remedial legislation, the nation would react in accord with those precepts and principles of its boasted religious ethic. It was hoped and by some believed, that the vast majority in this country would opt to develop a nation undergirded by tolerance, forgiveness, non-violence and love...
...true that sport proceeds without a script. My hunch is that Oakland will defeat Minnesota, but that is a hunch and nothing more. (Bet at your own risk.) It is true that the athlete, unlike the movie star, takes real risks. When his knee ligaments tear, his scream is agony, not acting. But our perception of such things is increasingly reduced to a 19-in. picture tube. With its illimitable superficiality, television forever mingles illusion and reality. So our new perception of sport, and our children's basic perception of sport, suggests that a game is one more...