Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, during talks with other officials in the Legislative Palace, she could hear the shouts of between 100 and 150 students yelling "Yankee imperialism!" and "Imperialist Rosalynn Carter!" A couple of Molotov cocktails were thrown and the police fired some tear gas, but the demonstrators got no closer than 100 yds. away from her motorcade and evidently had no intention of threatening her personally...
...interviewed in prison and deeply admired, Andreas Baader, then 27 and serving time for the 1968 fire-bombing of two Frankfurt department stores. Baader had won permission from prison authorities to study at the library. Suddenly three people burst into the library and sprayed the room with bullets and tear gas. The escape plan worked. Baader and Meinhof, now his accomplice in rebellion, leaped out a window...
...began to surface. Pakistan's ambassadors to Greece and Spain, both retired military officers, resigned in protest. Air Marshal Abdur Rahim Khan, who had been Ambassador to Spain, warned that Bhutto could provoke "a true civil war." In Washington the State Department stopped a $68,000 shipment of tear gas, which had been widely used by Pakistani police in quelling disorders. Said a spokesman: "It's just a question of prudence...
Psychologically he and his fellow tenants were "naked and disarmed" when the hospital began its secret mission to evict them, tear down their building and replace it with a 27-space parking lot. As a small boy, Worthy had accompanied his physician father on rounds in the hospitals of Greater Boston, acquiring a reverence for these institutions of healing. Most people share a similar attitude toward hospitals, and so they are unprepared to believe that a medical complex or, for similar sentimental reasons, a university or church can, in its relentless drive to force tenants out of a building, resort...
Those who like Love Story will probably like Oliver's Story, too. Those who found Love Story a slick collection of sentimental, tear-jerking trash will hate Oliver's Story just as much, if not more. Still, Oliver's Story currently is near the top of the bestseller lists, notwithstanding a conspicuous lack of quality. It makes you wonder again what people will read, and what kind of images they prefer to have place before them...