Word: tearfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NICOSIA, Cyprus, Dec. 9--Greek Cypriots rioted throughout this British-held island today as the United Nations plunged into debate on a solution for its troubles. Authorities used guns, tear gas and clubs against the rioters...
...Verlaine had never had to wait for anything before-he decided to be redeemed by the love of a pure angel. For this he selected 16-year-old Mathilde Maute, prim and pretty authoress of a poem beginning, "How powerful is a woman's tear!" Verlaine so worshiped her that he stopped going to brothels, and when their marriage had to be postponed, suffered what he perplexedly called "a disappointment that one might almost describe as carnal...
...Tear the thing down," urged another citizen, interjecting among these four words an equal number of obscenities. Hizzoner and Monseigneur dismounted from the bulldozer. The Annunciators, noticeably weakened by their previous selection, began a prolonged drum roll...
...Loud huzzas) "Let's go. Tear it down. I'm starved." The Annunciator Drum and Bugle Corps laced into and out of "The Stars and Stripes Forever," dogs growled, flashbulbs popped. In a thick cloud of cigar fumes, the Council stood on the curb, anxiously awaiting the historic moment. Hizzoner, Monseigneur Hickey, and other luminaries mounted the huge bulldozer for pictures...
...agreed it was. It isn't every day you can see them tear it down...