Word: teared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreigners are sometimes bemused -- and appalled -- by the American habit of putting on spectacular show trials of the Watergate kind. Is America a sort of regicide society, a nation with a compulsion periodically to tear out the wiring of its own Government? One had thought Reagan would be the first President since Eisenhower to retire happily after two terms...
...replacement of the compromised chancery with a new structure built from scratch. Though the House has not yet voted on the proposal, many Senators remained skeptical toward the Schlesinger plan. Labeling it a "half measure," South Carolina Democrat Ernest Hollings declared, "The best solution would be just to tear the whole thing down and send the Soviets the bill...
...AIDS investigators, the reports of the virus in mosquitoes, bedbugs and even tear drops have been a "distracting sideshow." The pivotal question is not where the virus is hiding or riding, but whether in that form it can cause disease...
...huge square in front of the Bank of Korea, a unit of 80 riot police suddenly found themselves cut off from reinforcements. A sea of chanting demonstrators quickly surrounded the police, who had already used up their supplies of pepper gas, a concentrated and particularly painful form of tear gas. Outnumbered and overwhelmed, the police, many of them young conscripts, knelt in terror behind their riot shields, trying to fend off a torrent of rocks and gas canisters thrown by the students. The protesters began beating the police, then confiscating shields, helmets and other equipment. As the police were finally...
...downtown St. Paul, he did, after wandering without notes or road map through one more gentle monologue about Lake Wobegon, where the week, as usual, had been quiet, though rainy; after singing every goodbye song he could think of, after taking out a pocket handkerchief and wiping a tear, or perhaps only a drop of perspiration, from the sweet, lined face of Guitarist Chet Atkins, and after running a lordly half hour beyond the close of his time slot...