Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work on a form crew. We build forms for concrete and tear them down. Some women work on mine crews that chill and blast, and some are mechanics and welders. We also shovel...
...last week's election approached, more and more Nazarenes listened to Zayad, who promised to "tear down the Chinese wall between the people and the city council." The voters were also upset when heavy-handed Israeli ministers from Jerusalem suggested that Zayad might be "an Arafat...
...sell. To their dismay, recent winters have been unusually mild; on top of that, seven states have banned the metal-studded tires that accounted for 40% of all snow tires sold in the early 1970s. More states may well enact similar laws on the ground that the metal studs tear up highway surfaces. As a result, snow-tire sales have melted steadily, from 19.1 million tires in 1972 to 17.5 million in 1974; this year's sales may drop below 15 million...
...Peter Tufo, the unpaid head of the city's Board of Correction, arrived and bravely agreed to enter one of the cell blocks held by the rebels in order to negotiate. Donning gas masks, the two men crawled through the hole in cell block 6 into an eerie tear-gas mist. They then asked the tense inmates for "delegates." Seven leaders - who carried homemade shivs and wore blankets and towels around their heads as a protection against the gas - returned with them for talks in the police-held cells...
...Madrid. As the Te Deum mass for Juan Carlos was scheduled to begin at San Jerónimo, the protesters marched on the sprawling prison, where a number of prominent leftists, including Trade Union Leader Marcelino Camacho, were incarcerated. Mounted police charged the crowd and dispersed them with tear gas, clubs and a water cannon. There were no injuries, and the 23 people arrested were released within 24 hours...