Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women at Houston wanted the right to tear their unborn children out of their wombs. How ironic of them at the same time to call for federally funded programs for victims of child abuse. What selfish, twisted logic...
...islands that dot the Indian Ocean, few could be more obscure than Tromelin. Understandably so. It is a tear-shaped chunk of sand less than one mile long and 700 yards wide. Its flora consists of four coconut palms and some nondescript bushes that submerge whenever the sea turns rough. Nonetheless, Tromelin has become the focus of a heated political controversy. Three nations claim it: France, which currently controls it, Mauritius and Madagascar (formerly Malagasy). Their feud may have to be resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague...
...confidant to the powerful. "The whole spectrum of reporting today is so violently anti-Establishment that anyone who attempts to set the facts out becomes an apologist," he complains. Madigan also likes to give his colleagues a taste of the same medicine they administer to city hall. "Newsmen tear everyone else apart, but they can't stand criticism themselves," says Madigan, who mails transcripts of his broadcasts to leading Chicago journalists. "I want to rub their noses in it." In a mere 12½ minutes a week, he certainly does that...
...Harvard hockey team lost its second game of the season last night on a goal by the Terriers' John Bethel with less than four minutes to play. And that, coupled with the tear-your-eyebrows-out overtime loss to Dartmouth, gives you an idea of how close the Crimson has come to being 5-0 at this point, instead...
...sometimes difficult to deal sensibly with television. In some people, TV excites grandiose and quasireligious visions -the future zoom of its open-ended possibilities, the way it collapses old relationships of time, space, sight and sound, or can tear up reality and reassemble it to the point that the medium's ambitions seem extravagantly metaphysical. To others, TV is all of civilization's banality crammed into a buzzing home appliance designed to cause brain damage. As a witness to actuality -its "news function"-television can be journalistically incomparable (Newton Minow exempted news from his famous 1961 charge that...