Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police used tear gas to break up a demonstration by striking teachers after Premier John Compton declared that pay raises would be disastrous to the nation's economy...
...they mention are with the agency, they've done these people great harm." Added CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "I also wonder where they get their money. It would help if those who worry about CIA activities would direct the same attention to those who work so hard to tear us apart...
...with an energetic and thoughtful quiet diplomacy. The exchange of political prisoners can be an important area of action for quiet diplomacy. I do not accept the contentions against such exchanges that have been expressed in the West. In some cases, this is practically the only realistic way to tear people out of the hell of the camps and prisons. Even if this method can help only a very few people, still, it is a breakthrough, and it assuredly does not harm those who remain behind...
...softens him, neutralizing the eccentricities on which he has built a fascinating film career. Sherman Yellen's drama, about the stormy relationship between Sinclair Lewis and journalist Dorothy Thompson, might have been written as a dull screen biography of a famous American, but Hollywood stopped investing in those bland tear-jerkers decades ago. So it winds up on Broadway, with a film star intent on "flexing his acting muscles" in a role that taps a fraction of his considerable talents...
...were burned, and at least a dozen other fires ignited. When a police car arrived on the scene, it tore into the crowd at an estimated 35 m.p.h., knocking one woman onto the car's hood and carrying her for more than 20 ft. Eventually, police armed with tear gas, billy clubs and fire hoses broke...