Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commemorating Gandhi's month-old arrest, hundreds of his followers, choking under a tear-gas barrage, lay prone or squatted in Bombay streets. But although Gandhi's movement was spreading, the Raj persisted in pretending that it had suppressed the demonstrations and averted greater uproar. The danger, increasing week by week, was that the full fury of India's disorder would burst when dry war weather in late September and October* adds its welcome to Japanese invaders...
...found black flags of defiance dangling from lampposts. In the country they found two arms dumps. They killed a sentry in an Antrim County barnyard, discovered he was guarding ten beer kegs of nitroglycerin, 60 revolvers, eight rifles, seven tommy guns, 7,000 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades and tear gas. At a neighboring farm they found a second cache...
...Students League on 57th Street. Says he: "I have weathered the stormy days at the League when Emma Goldman, as well as other communists, lectured at the institution, shouting 'down with the Louvre, throw it into the Seine, and the Royal Academy into the Thames. Tear down the Metropolitan Museum stone by stone and burn the works of the brush-swinging hacks that go by the name of Old Masters.' " When, in 1936, the League's models staged a sitdown strike, Conservative Bridgman just sat tight. At the Art Students League, a teacher's tenure...
Amid the hue & cry of Congressional debate, a political revolution of at least minor importance was about to be enacted this week. Ready for final passage was the soldiers' vote bill. And though Southern Senators might weep and States' rights theorists tear their hair, the bill suspended poll taxes for the duration of the war, as far as soldiers and sailors are concerned...
This summer the Governor noticed that the visitors were taking over all the best rooms and trying to remodel the upstairs. In fact Senator Shipstead, no amateur architect himself, was planning to tear down the whole house and put up a new one, in which he had the master bedroom and Messrs. Stassen, Ball and friends had no rooms...