Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Government troops shot tear gas into the crowds and finally opened fire on the protesters, government sources said yesterday. At least five people were killed and many were wounded in the gunfire...
HOOP NOTES: Harvard grabbed 4-0, 6-2 leads before Graziano went on tear, scoring nine of S.C.'s first 11 points. His three point play gave hosts 11-10 lead they never relinquished...Carolina outrebounded Harvard, 28-12, in the first half, 50-32 overall. Harvard 28 43--71 So. Carolina 37 48--85 Attendance...
...have fleet of military hover craft. Although the latest crisis forced the Shah to delay or cancel $7 billion in current purchases, about $12 billion worth of equipment is in the delivery pipeline, including 160 advanced F-16 U.S. jet fighters. (Ironically, the army had not stockpiled grenades, tear gas and other weapons to use against demonstrators and had to order emergency supplies from...
...their necks and backs. A perfunctory round of jumping-jack hops is the only recognizable survivor from football calisthenics past. "The wrong kind of exercise can cause injury," Verbruggen notes. "Deep knee bends alone are all right, but those duck-walks you always see teams doing will tear more cartilage in the knee than any game...
Carl Levin, 44; made a name for himself as president of the Detroit city council in the early 1970s by taking on the federal bureaucracy?and winning. He did so by deciding to tear down thousands of abandoned houses that had been taken over by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and had become breeding grounds for crime. When HUD's lethargic officials threatened to prosecute Levin and Mayor Coleman Young, the two city officials ordered the housing razed anyway?and HUD did nothing. Challenging Republican Senator Robert Griffin this year, Democrat Levin again campaigned against overgrown government...