Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School professors say that the rumors of Dean Robert H. Ebert's resignation have been flying around since the summer, and Ebert made it official last Friday in a prematurely tear-jerking au revoir with President Bok, announcing that he will be leaving in July...
...side: like Americans, Bengalis are basically a bored and unhappy people, and seek cruel entertainment. When they have nothing else to do, many residents of Dacca sit by the roadside, waiting for accidents. If one occurs and the driver hasn't the quick wits to hit and run, they tear him into several pieces. (Affluent and alienated, we must let other people do this...
...London Madhouse Company of course has no such tear-jerking Horatio Alger story. It was marketed from the start by the slick professional Playbillpublicity machine, and it has in fact played with phenomenal success in several countries. Still as we watch the red-faced clownish musician attempting to play a dozen battered instruments taped around a bedframe, we can recapture some of the extemporaneous, frantically amateurish flavour of a uniquely American institution that traces its origins to the days of Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo...
...matter whom they play. Oakland has won the last three World Series, and Insatiable Owner Charlie Finley is hungry for a fourth. Reggie Jackson, Gene Tenace and Billy Williams are all regular home-run producers, and Claudell Washington hits consistently. When they reach base, the A's tear around like speed freaks, and Finley has "designated runner" Matt Alexander in reserve. Oakland does not hit for high averages, but the bats boom when it counts...
Even after reading your description of a possible disaster, nothing could destroy our hopes of some day returning to San Francisco-once that unique city is in your blood, nothing can tear you away, not even an earthquake...