Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surely to the enemy. Strange palsies seized the hands of cartoonists when they were asked to depict Hitler; a poet who had made Germany laugh with his verses "On Hitler's Mustache" took to wearing a brown shirt. When Hitler's minions broke into the offices to tear them apart, they found a magazine that was already dead by its own hand...
...Imam rides through Sana's surprisingly wide, flowery streets in a horse-drawn coach. As the shadows lengthen in Sana men, women & children gather in the courtyards for the daily ritual and recreation-the chewing of the qat. They squat about brass spittoons (in the better homes) and tear the leaves of Catha edulis fresh from the stems. Some travelers have said that qat is an aphrodisiac, but a Yemenite philosopher has set the world straight on that point. "It brings rest to the body and ease to the mind," he wrote, "which cannot be achieved in any other...
...Tear the Wall. German delegates mingled with such survivors of Nazi oppression as Norway's heroic Bishop Eivind Berggrav, France's Protestant leader Marc Boegner, as the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed for the tearing down of the wall that "separates and divides." Star speaker was Germany's Martin Niemoller*, who made a heartfelt confession of his country's guilt, and at least a partial atone ment for his previous statement that a "good German" does not ask whether or not Germany's cause is just...
...week's end, Candidate Steel began to show the wear & tear of campaigning. Incensed at the hostile attitude of the avidly New-Dealish New York Post, he snorted: "What a pigsty the New York press...
...here . . . they do not suppress demonstrations with harmless tear gas; shooting does the trick. Many a man remains lying on the streets, but not even as a joke does one read any reference to these events. . . . Newspapers are forbidden to report the truth...