Word: teared
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Harvard's new president, though himself an Earthling, should tear down the offending banner and forcibly enroll the culprits in Introductory Astronomy. Let's put the "universe" back into "University." Jeff Moran...
Nixon's judicious employment of his tear ducts enthralled the nation and helped propel his ticket to victory over Adlai E. Stevenson, who even in defeat clung to the discredited Victorian ethic by quoting Abraham Lincoln's anecdote about a little boy who stubbed his toe and said that it hurt too much to laugh but he was too big to cry. Poor Stevenson, a prisoner of the past, deserved to be a loser. For the more up-to-date Nixon, the prize was the vice presidency and, 16 years later, the White House itself...
...buses and trains. The A.N.C. denied involvement, suggesting instead that right-wing white extremists were to blame. That could be true, but many blacks were unconvinced. "It seems we cannot cope with victory," wrote Aggrey Klaaste, editor of the black newspaper the Sowetan. "White soldiers are now needed to tear us from one another's throats...
Officers hurled tear gas at the protesters. Amid the smoke, sporadic gunfire rang out for 15 minutes as authorities drove back the advancing A.W.B. members. A block away whites hurled rocks at a van carrying blacks. When the vehicle lost control and toppled into the crowd, killing one extremist, enraged whites opened fire and at least four blacks were injured. Ironically, De Klerk came to Ventersdorp to seek the support of rural white conservatives, who are rapidly deserting the National Party because of his reforms...
...hurt, or that civil rights and tolerance are essential in a democracy, but that hypersensitivity clouds rational discourse: how to knit a contentious American society together rather than allow it to become balkanized by competing interests. "We need to reset the thermostats," writes sociologist Etzioni, "not shatter windows or tear down walls. Extremism in defense of virtue is a vice...