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Word: tearfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, we managed to tear her away from the apples to search for foliage...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: An Autumnal Adventure: Foliage in Vermont | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...also a little worried. On opening night in New York, someone had tear gassed the audience. A friend of mine who had been gassed once called it the worst feeling in the world--and a lousy way to begin a show, I imagine...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Art for Art's Sake | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...efforts to build a country to match our pride. As you channeled your power to undo a dictatorship, so may you channel it now to help create an enduring democracy. I ask that you use media's tremendous power to build up rather than to tear down, to create rather than to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Freedom and the Media | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

WHILE YOU WERE away this summer, Harvard libraries quietly raised their photocopying price from a nickel to a dime. Five cents, they claim, simply was not enough to compensate for the wear and tear that xeroxing causes the University's collection. And since prices haven't been raised since the '60s, it was time for a change...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | 9/24/1986 | See Source »

...known leftist, was also taken half-dressed from his home and killed. The government denied any role in the abduction-murders. About 600 people, many of them journalists, gathered in a cemetery in Santiago last Wednesday to accompany Carrasco's funeral cortege to his grave. Police dispersed them with tear gas and water cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile Pinochet's New State of Siege | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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