Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kenya's Maathai is facing trial on charges of publishing "a false rumor which is likely to alarm the public," namely that the Moi government was planning to hand over power to the military. Last month, during a protest by fasting mothers of political prisoners, she was tear-gassed and clubbed unconscious by police. In January more than 100 police officers swarmed her house in Nairobi and arrested her. A night in jail with no mattress or blankets so aggravated her rheumatism that she was hospitalized for several days after her release...
...federal debt. Thirty percent of our tax dollars go to pay off not the debt itself but the interest on the debt. This amounts to $200 billion a year, hardly any of which will ever fill an orphan's tummy or dry a poor widow's tear. Instead, most of it flows directly to a handful of institutions and relatively well-heeled folks who were clever enough to lend the government money at profitable rates. To these fortunate individuals (nearly 15% of whom are not even American citizens), there is indeed a U.S. government, or at least someone who disburses...
...people who are so anti-ILGo now are so because they see the group as disruptive and trying to destroy ethnic unity, not participate in its clebration. People will always resent those who they see as trying to take away or tear down their sacred institutions...
...week, jangling electric-guitar riffs alternate with piquant Caribbean rhythms, often in the same song, while Byrne aims his quirky intelligence at sex-change operations, domestic discord and even the Deity: "Well God can turn the world around/ And he can push it in the dirt/ And he can tear it all apart/ He don't care who'all gets hurt/ Oh, something ain't right." The mix is intoxicating -- a dark elixir candy-coated with buoyant melodies and lyrics that smile even as they bite. At once scathing and funny, swinging and strange, UH-OH is Little Creatures with...
...undesirable traits are different, but the attitude is the same. Promising black students are ridiculed for speaking standard English, showing an interest in ballet or theater, having white friends or joining activities other than sports. "They'll run up to you and grab your books and say, 'I'll tear this book up,' " says Shaquila Williams, 12, a sixth-grader at Webster Academy in East Oakland. "They'll try and stop you from doing your work." Honor students may be rebuked for even showing up for class on time...