Word: teared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CAMERA pans across a ballroom filled with decadent partygoers. Strains of a Viennese waltz can be heard in the background. The waltz becomes diabolical as the camera zooms into actress Joan Chen's face. A tear rolls down her marble-white cheek. She picks up a lily and starts chewing. slowly and sensually...
...SOUL OF OUR HOMELAND IS RINSED WITH THE BLOOD OF OUR MARTYRS? Nervous soldiers in riot gear stood guard as tourists filed into the Church of the Nativity, built in the 6th century on the spot where Christ is believed to have been born. Troops with assault rifles and tear-gas launchers patrolled the market area, while soldiers ringed the perimeter of the picturesque hilltop village. On Christmas Eve, the heavy military presence combined with a cold rain to keep Bethlehem unusually quiet. Those pilgrims who did venture into the town were frisked before boarding their buses...
...Nazareth, 4,000 youngsters ran through the streets, hurling debris at security forces. In Umm al Fahm, an Israeli Arab town in Galilee, 3,000 demonstrators were dispersed with tear gas when they blocked a highway near the town. Police and soldiers took care not to use lethal force against the Israeli Arabs, and none were killed...
...shutdown of nearly 900 Arab schools in the occupied territories was extended through this week. The Jerusalem daily newspaper Al Quds, which circulates widely in Gaza and the West Bank, was banned there for one month after it published a picture of an Israeli soldier carrying a tear-gas launcher and fleeing from a crowd of demonstrators in Gaza. Two refugee camps, Jabalia (pop. 40,000) in Gaza and Dheisheh (pop. 8,000) near Bethlehem, were sealed...
...peace until the Israelis leave our land," said Shahla al Aklik, a Palestinian woman whose son was killed in the West Bank last week. "Even if we lose all our sons, the struggle will continue." That resolve has survived two decades of Israeli occupation, and neither bullets nor tear gas seems likely to destroy...