Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time Chileans have been hit by an inflation of violence. A carabinero (national policeman) was killed in a clash between pro-and anti-Allende forces in Conception in August, and a 17-year-old student died when a tear-gas grenade exploded in his face during a Santiago street brawl last month. As the violence increases, political parties have begun to organize for street warfare. The Communist Party has set up "self-defense committees" throughout Santiago. The Socialists talk of establishing "antifascist brigades." On the other side, a youthful group of extreme rightists called Patria y Libertad talks vaguely...
...Nixon also had a strained simile for explaining the difference between himself and George McGovern. America, said the President, was building the proudest, tallest building in the world. The opposition says," 'Because the windows are broken, tear it down and start again.' We say, 'Replace the windows and keep building.' " George McGovern later compounded that rather precarious image with an even more dubious one. Nixon was trying to build "a palace for the privileged few," said McGovern. Rather than tear anything down, the Democrats want to "restore that temple to the ancient truths." They both sounded...
...height of the sporadic chaos, caused mostly by a few small "mobile affinity groups" of trashers, who in some cases came equipped with their own tear gas, occurred during Nixon's and Agnew's acceptance speeches, and therefore received almost no television coverage. But simultaneous logs of the police radio channel and the convention proceedings capture the yin and yang of the final evening...
...loan to rebuild it the way it was. Thumbing through an album showing the house before the flood, with its trim lawn and clipped rose garden, Nowak says: "If I get this place fixed up and somebody comes knocking on my door to say urban renewal is going to tear it down, there's going to be a fight...
...people in the audience to dance on the neighboring football field of Akron University, despite the fact that it had been freshly seeded. Outside the stadium, kids threw rocks, and Chick Cassady, the Airplane's manager, allegedly encouraged the youngsters to do battle with the police. When the tear gas cleared, the cops had arrested Cassady, the Airplane's Paul Kantner and Kantner's "old lady" Grace Slick, who either attacked the fuzz or-depending on who was telling the story-was attacked by them. The three paid a $1,400 bond and promised to show...