Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claim that any leak could tear down the whole diplomatic structure is highly doubtful. The leaks (see box) did not prevent a SALT I arms agreement with the Soviet Union, hinder peace negotiations on Viet Nam, prevent Nixon from making his overtures to the Soviet Union and China or demonstrably affect the Middle East...
...There is going to be a severe backlash against the sordid press McCarthyism and intellectual punksterism of those who sought so mindlessly to tear down a great President, a great office and a great nation." The Dallas Morning News chided "zealous communicators hot on the trail of Watergate" for ignoring the principle that innocence must be presumed until guilt is proved...
...very folksy and good-natured and wise. But neither Bogdanovich nor Scenarist Alvin Sargent (Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing) seems to understand that the tutoring Moses gives Addie is not so much sentimental education as congenial corruption. We are supposed to smile and blink back a tear when Addie decides she would rather remain with Moses, bilking the suckers, than settle down to a stifling middle-class life...
...later in Milan, where an assortment of M.S.I, members and other right-wingers had scheduled a political rally. When the rally was banned because of political tension in the city, the demonstrators marched toward police head quarters. They were met by squads of helmeted policemen; rocks, Molotov cocktails and tear gas began to fly, and hand bombs were tossed toward the cops. One bomb struck a young police man in the chest, killing...
...Delhi, held a match to his gasoline-soaked saffron robes and burned himself to death. The day before, a silent protest march by his fellow believers had turned into a riot. Demonstrators shouted "Death to the police!" and 238 of them were arrested in a flurry of tear gas and lath-is (long sticks...