Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pretoria, overlooking the main route the blacks take into the city early each morning, before work starts. I am told it houses policemen and their families. South African whites are on the alert these days. If any trouble starts, the police will be able to move right in, with tear gas machines designed especially for South African crowds, and, if that fails to disperse "them," automatic weapons...
...week's end some oil personnel were already back on the job. But the country's mood remained tense as troops with automatic weapons and tear-gas grenades fired on demonstrating students at Tehran University. The government said there were no deaths, but student groups claimed that 40 or more had been killed. Meanwhile, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was consulting with leaders of the opposition on how to maintain order without jeopardizing the liberalization policies that he initiated last summer...
Some are pretty juicy, like the time back in '69 when Robert Luskin '72, a scared freshman reporter, was on location during the student takeover of University Hall. "He was there for the tear gas and club swinging," Barol recounts...
...live, Luskin's voice choked with tear gas as he cried, "Somebody's about to pull my plug!" Somebody did indeed pull his plug--a University policeman--but he was valiantly back on the air within three minutes. The day ended when he and five other WHRB staffers were carted off to prison...
...Camelot again, if only for a few sunny days. "Now at last Jack has come back to Harvard," said Senator Ted Kennedy as his wife Joan wiped away a tear. Jackie Onassis and her children Caroline and John were also present at the dedication of the new $12 million building housing the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The school, which applies to government problems the case-study method pioneered by Harvard Business School, will be, said Ted, "a bridge between the academy and the world of politics." It will also be a living memorial to J.F.K. Said...