Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donald Fantini, a member of the Cambridge School Committee and founder of the Fundamental School, said, "It will cost $80,000 to tear down the old Russell building. We might as well spend $300,000 and make a useful facility...
...been piled up for use in the annual Christmas pageant on the Ellipse. As the President began his welcoming remarks, police struggled to keep the two factions apart. The large white welcome banner was ripped to shreds. At that point, the wind carried the first acrid whiffs of tear gas used by police to quell the outbreak toward the ceremonies in progress on the White House lawn
...after the game there's more wear and tear, with thousand of miles to travel during the 82-game NBA season. And being on the road so much has its effects...
...strikes with jackhammer fury and lasts from a few minutes to several days. Along with the throbbing pain, eyes tear, vision blurs and there are waves of nausea. The slightest disturbance?the closing of a door, a sudden aroma, the switching on of a light?can be devastating. As Dr. John B. Brainard explains, "The ache becomes an intolerable, overwhelming force, driving you to bed, away from people, away from the world, away from everything except the hideous pain inside your head...
Suicide rates jump. Young people search for meaning in life. Unemployed divorcees with small children sit at home and rink and cry. Corporate leaders are able to ruin thousands of lives on the other side of the globe without seeing a single tear that their actions cause to be shed. It's nothing particularly new. It's modern society with all its mobility, freedom, independence, economic prosperity, loneliness, alienation, centralization and exploitation. It's the anonymous world. Maybe we will adjust and in the end the world will be a better place for all. Maybe new values and mores will...