Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are in, say, New York City, but they have become dangerous enough. Citizens are arming themselves in self-defense. Though Soviet law strictly controls private gun ownership, an illegal-weapons trade is growing. A popular alternative is the "gas gun," a pocket-size German-made pistol that fires tear gas and costs as little as $25 on the black market...
Layzer says he feels that had the student expected a grade, he would have felt far less at liberty to tear into the professor's theory. "It has a chilling effect on a student if he knows it will be graded," he says...
...there today and not one of them is complaining. But the complainers within this country--those are the ones that make me sick to my stomach," O'Neil said. "This is the greatest country in the world and within it we have problems with these people who want to tear it down...
...strict U.N. curfews, Palestinian youngsters in the occupied territories are cooped up at home most of the day. Another source of outrage and anxiety: a shortage of gas masks. Israeli authorities initially refused to issue the masks to Palestinians to ensure that they would have no protection against tear gas used to quell demonstrations. The Supreme Court has overruled this policy, but mask distribution is lagging...
...government has lost all control in Mogadishu, and chaos has taken over. Armed mobs, some of them renegade soldiers from President Mohammed Siad Barre's army, roam the city shooting and looting. Troops shouting "Allah Akbar!" (God is great!) invaded the Roman Catholic cathedral, drove the congregation out with tear gas and truncheons, then set fire to the building. An Italian priest who witnessed the attack said many worshipers were killed...