Word: tearfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, according to Edward J. Reynolds '15, administrative vice president, construction will not begin "for a good many months." One member of the Class of '52 said that he didn't mind being evicted in the cause of progress, but had heard that "they're going to tear this down for a parking...
...that fire broke out in one school in January-Boss McCoy's successors firmly opposed closing the schools. Mayor Lawrence A. McCarthy complained of foreigners poking into Pawtucket's business, and suggested darkly that if this sort of thing went on, there would soon be demands to tear down every school building in the state more than 50 years old. Not until the state board of education finally approved a compromise did McCarthy & Co. give up. Last week the order went out to close nine schools and to put the displaced pupils on half-day sessions elsewhere. Next...
Uber Alles. Near San Francisco, police bagged Drugstore Clerk Haig Terzian for possessing a marijuana cigarette, made a routine check of his property, found: one Mauser pistol, three cases of dynamite and caps, five hand grenades, a tear-gas gun, a smoke bomb, a 4-ft. brass cannon, a Nazi uniform, two swastika banners, 15 unregistered machine guns...
GAZA, March 10--U.N. troops used tear gas and fired in the air today to break up a demonstration by thousands of Arabs demanding return of Egyptian administration to the Gaza Strip. U.N. headquarters announced several demonstration leaders were arrested after the U.N. soldiers were stoned as they drove the crowd down Gaza's main street...
...fired. Opera leaders predicted the imminent closing of La Scala and other houses for lack of funds. Government opponents in the Senate feared a loss of tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down the Colosseum to make a parking lot.") The Communist paper L'Unitaá meanwhile played the story as the tragedy of the poor workingman forced to foot the bills for "the luxuries and extravagances" of opera stars paid $1,500 a performance (actually a lot less than...