Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produce some solutions to India's myriad problems-inflation, a sluggish economy, unemployment, poverty. Hovering over all of these are the twin specters that have haunted the nation from its birth in 1947. One is the spate of ethnic, religious and linguistic divisions that have always threatened to tear the country apart; even today there are no fewer than 14 official languages and 845 dialects, as well as numerous castes and religions and countless sects-a forbidding recipe for unity. The other problem is a fast-growing population that has added some 200 million people since Independence...
...first comedy, Bringing Up Baby, in 1938, and spent the forties as a socialite-heroine forever being brought down to earth by James Stewart or Spencer Tracy. Without much flair for humor-until she discovered being mean to Joan Crawford in the sixties-Bette Davis settled for ever-drearier tear-jerkers...
...strategy had already been decided. One more time, we're going to pack our knapsacks and head to Washington. One more time we're going to march past the White House. One more time we're going to confront the police, and end up running in a cloud of tear gas and flying billy clubs...
...this dual aspect"-a potential for both benefit and harm. He warns that it does no good to try to retreat to an earlier century, and he quotes Konrad Lorenz, the famed naturalist and animal behaviorist, who has been warning hostile student audiences that if they tear down knowledge to start afresh, they will backslide 200,000 years. "Watch out!" Lorenz cautions the students. "If you make a clean sweep of things, you won't go back to the Stone Age, because you're already there, but to well before the Stone...
...That Harvard give us full use of this building, with full facilities (heat, plumbing, electricity, etc.), until it is necessary to tear it down in order to break ground for the Riverside low-income housing...