Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighborhood between lawmen and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, which had kidnaped-and claimed to have converted to radical terrorism-the 20-year-old publishing heiress. The TV images seemed plucked from old Viet Nam film clips: street fighting in Danang perhaps, the helicopters wheeling overhead, the hissing tear-gas canisters, finally the flames of the enemy's hideout leaping into the suddenly hushed twilight. But the reality was that Patty Hearst might well be in the flames, and the most stricken of all the electronic witnesses was the Hearst family, watching 350 miles away in a suburb...
Five minutes later, he repeated the order. When again there was no response, an officer crept behind a wall near the house and threw a sizzling tear-gas canister through the tattered window curtains. A mangy, dun-colored dog scurried off the porch...
Staring Witness. At 6:35 p.m., as the first trace of smoke began to curl up from the dwelling, a black woman staggered out, her face puffed and cracked by the tear gas and a smear of blood showing on the back of her white blouse...
...black, both wearing cartridge belts. The heat was so intense that the bullets were exploding. Later, when the flames had died down and the little house had collapsed into 4 ft. of debris, police found three more bodies clustered in what had once been the bathroom. All were wearing tear-gas masks, and in the ruins, police found a formidable arsenal that included six sawed-off shotguns, one automatic rifle and two submachine guns. As the five bodies were removed in brown rubber bags, one of the witnesses who stood by, staring at the smoking rubble, was Steven Weed, whom...
Exposure is not by any means limited to those who frequent asbestos factories. The combined effects of day-to-day wear and tear on asbestos-containing products, as well as a certain degree of industrial planned obsolescence, insure that varying amounts of the fiber will be continuously liberated into the consumer's air. Floor tiles scuff, ironing boards rip and fray, clutch and brake linings are slowly ground down, asbestos cement dust is kicked into the air when buildings are destroyed by demolition companies. Up to a microgram of asbestos is now found in singlevial doses of injectable drugs. This...