Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daddy," you can read the panic in his eyes; he is as bereft as Baby Jessica. The other theme is an adult's need to believe that our final worldly departure might come only after we have made peace with others and, thus, ourselves. That's worth a tear. Even a critic will cry for what might have been: a nice film inside a bad one, like a ghost of its better self...
...takes the form of a wide-eyed homage to a gorgeous campus activist. "She burns incense and listens to the Doors and everyone at Smith respects her strong opinions and clear insights into these times." At an anti-apartheid rally, the activist berates the crowd, "We've got to tear this world apart, we've got to recall a more causative day and spark the fire of revolution once again. I am so fucking mad'...and in her fury she jumped two stories and tore her jeans in all the right places. All the girls screamed and told...
Alagic's wife Mirsada, 39, wipes away a tear. She will not meet the visitor's eyes because she is mortified at the state of their lives. The house isn't clean, the children are always hungry, and the last of the food is almost gone. She says she has only one wish, which she prays for every day: "I want to survive...
...hurricanes are Mother Nature's barroom brawlers, swiftly finishing their business and heading for the door, floods tend to behave more like unwanted houseguests: they park themselves in the living room, tear up the furniture, and generally make a nuisance of themselves for weeks or months before finally having the decency to pack up and hit the road. That's not good news for residents of the Mississippi River Valley, who long after floodwaters have crested will play host to a chocolate-colored inland sea sprawling across the spine of the Midwest -- a stagnant, festering stew of industrial waste, agricultural...
...Lacrosse Coach Scott Anderson once told my current roommate, "That Jay's a nice guy, but some of the stuff he writes..." And he proceeded to tear into a recent piece I'd written in the paper...