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Word: teared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several student groups who have already hung signs on Thayer, say the administration has threatened to tear the posters down...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Banners Banned From Holworthy | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

...want us to tear down the walls of our classroom. I want us to pierce them," Hundt said...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Hundt Speaks at Ed School | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

...tear down another people to lift yourself up is not proper. But to tell the truth, to tear down the mind built on a false premise of white supremacy, that is nothing but proper because that will allow whites to relate to themselves as well as to other human beings as human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis Farrakhan: They Suck the Life From You | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...sophisticated message, since the colored and Indian communities are not convinced that they will fare better under a black- majority government. "The coloreds have always been marginalized by the A.N.C.," says Lawrence Solomon, 26. As an antiapartheid activist in the townships around Cape Town, he dodged police bullets and tear gas. Now he is an organizer for the National Party. "We're not the 'so-called coloreds,' you know," says Solomon. "We want to keep our identity, just like everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoiling for a Victory | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...manipulates his 52 assistants. A masterly marksman, he can scale an ordinary playing card across the stage with such force that it pierces a watermelon, and can rocket a card to decapitate a plastic duck. He can make a card rise from the deck as if by levitation, or tear one up and make it reappear whole. In Jay's supple hands, what is commonly known as a card trick is something approaching art. To watch him work a deck is to see him write haiku in the air, four times a week and three times on weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tricky Ricky | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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