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Word: teared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unmoved, Figueres grabbed an M-3 submachine gun, ran to the scene and ordered his troopers to pump tear gas into the jetliner's ventilating system. Moments later firing broke out inside the plane. Don Pepe gave the order to attack. "Get them!" he cried. The plane's rear door suddenly dropped open and a stewardess hurtled clown the steps unhurt. One of the gunmen followed, but was cut down by a hail of bullets before he hit the ground. After that, the two other skyjackers surrendered, and the crew escaped without injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Terrorizing Terrorists | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...young hoods of the extremist Movement of the Revolutionary Left charged the demonstrators along the broad Avenida Providencia. As the leftists began throwing rocks, right-wing youths wearing hard hats entered the fray swinging wooden clubs. When shield-carrying carabineros finally moved in, they unaccountably aimed most of their tear gas and water cannon at the women. Scrambling in retreat, the marchers shouted "Assassins! Assassins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Empty Pots and Yankee Plots | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...hand flutter like birds. I don't want to give you the picture if you don't like it. You will either tear it up or bury it in a drawer. You think it makes you look bad, Awkward...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Picture Exchange | 12/11/1971 | See Source »

...missing. So, too, the party's reformers hope, will be the spectacle of bosses brokering power in cigar-clouded hotel suites amid a certain heady cynicism about how the game is played. No one is certain what will replace the old game. Ever since the broken heads and tear gas of Chicago more than three years ago, the Democratic Party has been embarked on an extraordinary and ambitious attempt at self-transformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Democrats: Trying for Party Reform | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

That was 24 years ago. Today, the religious animosities that have already warped the past and present of one-fifth of humanity seem to have become permanent. Not only do Hindu and Moslem troops of the two countries clash at the borders, but Hindu and Moslem civilians also frequently tear at one another in cities and towns. In West Pakistan, communal troubles are rare only because very few Hindus hung on after partition. But in East Pakistan, Moslem oppression had caused a steady Hindu migration to India even before the current troubles began. Now that light-skinned Pathan and Punjabi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Hindu and Moslem: The Gospel of Hate | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

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