Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York's last election, the main issue was the racial strife that threatened to tear the city apart. Dinkins, a black liberal Democrat who promoted himself as the right man to soothe those tensions, eked out a victory over his white Republican rival to become the city's first African American chief executive. Race relations in the Big Apple haven't improved much since then. But New Yorkers now express more concern about crime, jobs, affordable housing and effective schools...
...hard to imagine that someone as freewheeling as Bill Clinton could become a disciplined guerrilla warrior. Yet the President has deliberately gone underground in his battle for congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. That pact, which would tear down most trade barriers between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, is faring poorly under the damaging "air war" of television ads, talk-show appearances and telephone banks designed by labor unions and Ross Perot. So Clinton is fighting back in defilade -- in the congressional districts of 100 undecided lawmakers whom he believes can be won over with special attention...
...other words, the pope is charging his bishops (to whom the edict is addressed) to tear down the uneasy balance between religious allegiance and personal belief that many Catholics hold on issues such as birth control. Pope John Paul II's views are not a surprise--he has always been far more conservative on this issue than the majority of American Catholics. But by directing the Catholic clergy--many of whom strongly disagree with him--to censure all who fail to strictly abide by church teaching, he is throwing a divisive stake right down the center of American Catholicism...
...this story believable? Prosecutor Pamela Bozanich accuses Lyle of tear- jerking hamminess. "The level of ((Lyle's)) acting," she once remarked, "has fallen from Laurence Olivier to Sylvester Stallone." But she has been unable to shake his story much despite a pounding cross-examination. At one point, she asked why the brothers had not told the police of their fears that they would be killed. Lyle said, "We discussed: Would the police side with us, believe us?" Their conclusion: no, but "filing charges would definitely have put us in a position to be killed" by a still more outraged father...
...Johnny Cage kills his victims with a bloody, decapitating uppercut. Rayden favors electrocution. Kano will punch through his opponent's chest and rip out a still-beating heart. Sub-Zero likes to tear his foe's head off and hold it up in victory, spinal cord twitching as it dangles from the neck...