Word: teared
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...India's capital for a planned antigovernment rally, about 60,000 activists of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party were whisked into detention. The party's Hindu militants who reached the sealed-off city were confronted by a security force of 60,000. Several flash points erupted as authorities sprayed tear gas at crowds and hauled off an additional 5,000 to sport stadiums. Through it all, the manicured lawns near the presidential palace -- planned rallying point of the militants -- remained pristinely empty...
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt scans his vast office, then gazes down at the blue Republican carpet. He intends to tear the rug out, for it conceals a fine walnut floor installed during New Deal days by his conservationist hero, Harold Ickes. Not even the floor covering is beyond the scrutiny of Babbitt as he carries out vast changes in the Interior Department and in the government's philosophy toward its public lands. Where conservatives James Watt and Manuel Lujan once presided, Babbitt now speaks as if he were in a vanguard of liberators. "There has been an ideological war going...
Final warning: we're about to reveal a secret of The Crying Game, and we don't want to spoil the pleasure of the uninitiated. So you who have not seen this film, turn the page, or tear it out and save it to consult later. Any cheating will be punished. No kidding. We have ways...
...President offers higher taxes and modest spending cuts, but Congress and lobbyists may tear into his blueprint...
Brown (7-16 overall, 2-9 Ivy) briefly controlled the game midway through the second half with a 15-4 tear that put the Bears ahead 57-50. Harvard (5-18, 2-9) worked back into the game with Brown's free-throw woes...