Word: teared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will psyche yourself out that it's not so bad, but on that occasional night where you're standing around freezing at 3:30am, you'll think about the hundreds of hours you light on fire because of living in the Quad and you'll shed a little tear for the cold arbitrariness of life...
...However, Italians don’t just tear things down without a plan. We build them up, so they can lean over due to soil erosion. We have substantive ideas, and we were humble enough to scrap those that only honored our culture: Vespas, the Pope, “The Lizzie McGuire Movie,” Rocky Marciano/Rocky of “Rocky” fame, and Chef Boyardee. Even after discarding those, we have some great ideas that will represent Harvard much better than the Orange reactionary we currently have...
...very fast. First, some protesters commandeered four tractor trailers, including a tanker filled with fuel, and blocked traffic along a Nairobi highway. Three police officers who tried to talk to the students retreated under a hail of stones. Some of the protesters were clearly spoiling for a fight, chanting, "Tear gas, tear gas, we demand tear gas!" As the protest wore on, people working downtown locked themselves behind security gates in stores and restaurants and peered anxiously through the grilles...
...situation was reminiscent of student protests in the 1990s, which had a tendency to devolve into tear-gas-shrouded street battles between police and looters looking to take advantage of a demonstration to smash shop windows and nab a few things. This time, however, the protest's leaders tried to defuse the situation and urged their followers to head back to the University of Nairobi campus for a prayer session. "The direction they are now taking is not the direction we wanted," said Walter Otieno, 28, a Strathmore University student and one of the protest's leaders, who had gotten...
...Harvard’s 2008-09 campaign—which saw the team sputter through mediocrity early on but recover to go on a late tear and steal the ECAC regular season crown in the last weekend of play—was certainly impressive...