Word: tearfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died, wrote the man who most disliked him, the poet and engraver William Blake, "All Nature was degraded;/ The King drop'd a tear into the Queen's Ear,/ And all his Pictures faded...
Unrest in the Indian state of Punjab took a dramatic turn last week. Thousands of militant Sikhs overwhelmed police barricades and tried to storm the state legislature in the city of Chandigarh. Paramilitary police drove the rioters off with tear gas and gunfire, killing two and injuring...
...grass hasn't turned green yet on Ohiri Field, but the Harvard men's lacrosse team has already begun to tear...
...runners and, like the Stanford team, turned up no significant differences in the incidence of joint disease. "Our results are consistent with the thought that putting a normal joint through the normal range of motion is not harmful," says Panush. "Running may include pounding and wear and tear, but it does not necessarily cause arthritis...
...members said that the university's decision to tear down the shanties stemmed from its fear that the divestment movement was gaining steam. They said that university's move directly followed a campus-wide referendum which revealed that more than half of the undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members supported divestment...