Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wear and tear"--as he describes it--hurt Weisbrod. He woke up the Sunday morning after the season's opening weekend against Brown and Yale with what "felt like a muscle pull" in his lower back. But the pain subsided, and he travelled to Princeton to play the following weekend...
Containing the political fallout from Japan's worst nuclear accident may prove more difficult. The mishap at the 19-year-old facility underscored growing fears around the globe about the mechanical wear and tear that occurs - inside nuclear plants as they age. Such concerns could hobble the government in its drive to double the number of nuclear reactors to 80 during the next 20 years, in order to reduce Japan's dependence on imported fossil fuels...
...boasts snappy show tunes, precision tap lines, and leggy ladies in dazzling costumes dripping with sequins and feathers. All this is sandwiched between an opening carnival act that nightly crowns the king and queen of Mardi Gras, and a red, white and blue finale guaranteed to strain the tear ducts of even the most hard-nosed patriots. Though the cast consists entirely of active-duty and retired military personnel and dependents, it turns in a performance that rivals anything you'll see on the stages of Las Vegas or Atlantic City...
They have learned all too well how to imitate the violence of a state that has often used live ammunition on defenseless protesters and fired tear gas to disperse groups of small children. They have lived in a world, says the Rev. Frank Chikane, head of the South African Council of Churches, "of military operations and night raids, of roadblocks and body searches, where friends and parents get carried away in the middle of the night...
...growing backlash from disaffected whites. Less than 24 hours after Mandela and Buthelezi embraced last week, an A.N.C.-Inkatha clash killed at least eight people and injured 60 others in Natal province, where most of the country's 6 million Zulus live. In Pretoria police used nightsticks and tear gas to battle 5,000 white farmers who paralyzed traffic by parking farm vehicles on downtown streets. Backed by the Conservative Party and the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, the protesters demanded an end to political reforms. The black violence and right- wing intransigence showed that the final days of apartheid...