Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dervishes, flaming gasoline-soaked rags were flung among the brand-new cars, and soon the building rocked with the explosions of gas and oil drums. A Greek-owned tobacco factory was put to the torch, and fire trucks were held off with a hailstorm of bricks and paving stones. Tear-gas bombs thrown by the outnumbered and disorganized troops were picked up by schoolboys and hurled back. Three Turks died by gunfire as they drove through a roadblock near the burned-out garage; two others were slain at the foot of Othello's Tower in Famagusta. Before the mobs...
...personality but the sense of a person, not a pronouncing of words but a manner of speech. In Bellamy's coping with stretchers, wheelchairs, crutches and braces, in his making himself learn to crawl, in his making something heroic of what is humiliating, there is no trace of tear-jerking vaudevillism or performing virtuosity; there is always a sense of characterization and of character. It is a notable performance, culminating in the advance on crutches to the Convention rostrum-the re-entry into public life-with which Sunrise at Campobello ends...
...determine personally which streets shall be widened, which buildings demolished, which squares enlarged, and where new roads are to run. Some months ago, during a diplomatic trip to Baghdad, Turkey's Premier rose in the middle of the night to dispatch a cable to Istanbul: "Have decided to tear down house opposite Spice Bazaar at Eminonu Square. Proceed with expropriation...
...street outside police headquarters, blue-helmeted cops jumped aboard open riot trucks and headed for the city's downtown squares. Armed with rifles, bayonets, pistols, machetes and tear gas, they blocked off the narrow cobblestoned streets leading to the squares to keep rioters from gathering. A shiny red truck whipped along one side of Plaza Bolivar spraying demonstrators with high-pressure streams of water colored with red dye, then circled the plaza of El Silencio, center of earlier riots. When the truck left there was silence, except for the clink of soldiers' bayonets. Then the noise of gunfire...
Flaming bottles of gasoline crashed against buses; hard-pressed police squads fired deadly volleys into swirling bands of rebels, carted hundreds of demonstrators off to jail. Under the yellow stucco arcades of old buildings, the air was blue-grey with tear gas. At one point five schoolboys popped onto the roof of a building overlooking El Silencio, hurled stones at a police bus below. Six cops piled out, sprayed the tops of all the buildings with rifle fire...