Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them carrying clubs, surged through downtown Athens, where they started fires and tied up traffic. Some used appropriated buses as barricades, from which they peppered police with fruit and stones. In Constitution Square, students were met by a massive force of truncheon-swinging riot police and clouds of tear gas. In scenes that to some observers seemed like a re-enactment of the Costa-Gavras film Z, some police kicked and bludgeoned the demonstrators, while others fired machine guns into the air to scatter the student mobs...
...week's end the junta was still in power. Police, backed by army troops and tanks, smashed into the Polytechnic University and removed its occupants. Immediately after the rioting, downtown Athens looked like a battlefield. Debris was everywhere. Barricades of wood and garbage burned. Clouds of tear gas hung over the area...
...stay in office; now, just fewer than half (49%) do. At the same time, the number who want Nixon to resign has increased from 20% to 29%, but those who want him impeached have held steady at 10%, chiefly because three out of five Americans fear that impeachment would tear the country apart. Nonetheless, close to 43% would favor holding a special presidential election in 1974, if that were possible...
...when college boys sang "You can easily tell she's not my mother, 'cause my mother's 49." This is a novel about then and now mostly in Boston, about women with character and brains and what happens to them, about marriage, about the wear and tear of living, about the manners and aspirations of a generation that endured to see its values-not well defended but well believed in-derided across the generation gap. The genre is women's fiction, and the book lapses occasionally into jargon and sentimentality. But in a very short compass...
...overflows relate directly to the sewer system itself, which is--well, if wasn't built yesterday," Noss said. "It's very costly to put in a new sewer system and it tears up the street for a long time; it's an inconvenience. There are some overflows up near Eliot Bridge, and to build a sewer system that far up may not be prohibitively expensive but it is quite expensive. Besides, the major sewer systems are under Memorial Drive and Storrow Drive and you don't really want to tear them up either...