Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blocks. Prisoners carried broken pipes, broomsticks and rocks. A few quickly seized five guards as hostages. The inmates, more than 80% of whom are black or Puerto Rican, rapidly gained control of six of the eight cell blocks, but guards thwarted a takeover of cell block 6 by pitching tear-gas into a 3-ft.-wide hole in a wall, stopping prisoners from a neighboring cell from passing through...
More than 100 representatives of area tenant groups, including Cambridge tenants, converged on the State House yesterday to protest a proposed amendment to the Massachusetts rent control law that they alleged would "tear the guts out" of the current...
...rally by Socialists and Popular Democrats in Lisbon's Terreiro de Paço Square in support of the Premier's programs was interrupted by radical leftist hecklers and then panicked by charging military police, who fired over the crowd and flailed spectators with rifle butts. After tear gas was mysteriously touched off, Pinheiro de Azevedo concluded his remarks with weepy eyes and wet cheeks...
...months after her divorce, Braudy wrote, "I have a growing knowledge that the loss of any lover, friend, job, money won't tear me apart. If I do fall apart only a small percentage of me will disintegrate, and then I know I will put myself together. I feel tougher...
...against forced busing, but the Governor did maintain that the court's decree had to be obeyed. That stand appeared to hurt Carroll when resentment against integration rose to such a pitch that mobs burned buses on Sept. 5. On election eve, police had to use tear gas to disperse another mob of 3,500 demonstrators who were throwing bricks and bottles and chanting "Get the buses!" As it turned out, the resulting backlash against the violence helped the Governor, who also closed fast with an aggressive and well-financed campaign. Carroll not only took 63% of the vote...