Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Rumblings are heard in South Boston, but no one predicts a return of riot police or tear gas. A citywide Parent Advisory Council established by Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. has done much to defuse race tension. Another worry is low test scores. The national median on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 429 on the verbal exam, 471 for math. Boston's white students are scoring 445 on the verbal and 464 on the math, blacks 331 on verbal, 339 on math...
...weapons on both sides were less than nuclear-concussion grenades, Molotov cocktails, tear gas, clubs and stones -but they inflicted some cruel injuries. One demonstrator, a 31-year-old chemistry teacher, died when a concussion grenade ruptured his lungs and caused internal hemorrhaging. At least 100 demonstrators and ten police were hurt, including some on both sides who lost hands or feet when concussion grenades exploded prematurely. The environmentalists, neatly bottled up on a narrow road, never had a chance to reach the nuclear site a mile from the battlefield, and their cause ended up as another casualty...
...always, the U.S. has demonstrated an infuriating (to radicals) talent for absorbing and accommodating even those who began by wanting to tear the whole place down. Smoking marijuana is practically legal; the draft has been abolished. But the radical impulse is still there. A few weeks ago in Denver, the Third Annual Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies attracted some 400 electoral strategists, leftist policy intellectuals, would-be officeholders and labor organizers. The old New Left now expresses itself in a number of local forms. A man named David Olsen founded the San Francisco-based New School...
...deserved and distinctive name for herself as the most perceptive analyst of the precarious role of women in the male-dominated world of U.S. politics. First in her well-crafted autobiography. Private Faces/Public Places, now in her slim first novel, Abigail McCarthy skillfully details the insecurities and ambiguities that tear at the women behind-or sometimes deftly leading-their public...
...late '30s there was a strike of stevedores in Everett, Mass. The police broke up the peaceful picket line with tear gas. Those were the lean years for unions in America, and these members of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), protesting against conditions in the maritime industry, were banned from further picketing. But the police had arrived on a windy day and there was a school playground to the side of the dock. That day it wasn't only workers who were taken to hospitals; the children also choked and wept as the stinging cloud hit them...