Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...march, taunts were traded with Catholics from the Bogside area that adjoins the parade route, and a pitched battle was soon under way, leaving 175 wounded. This year, on the same occasion and on the very same streetcorners, British soldiers were back in action. They fired plastic bullets and tear-gas grenades into a Catholic mob that had come to lob rocks and bottles at Protestant marchers, who, for the first time since 1969, had been allowed to follow the traditional parade route...
When I first saw the cover, a tear ran down my cheek. With the help of the American people, Gerald Ford will lift this country out of its bind and once again instill the love of democracy in the hearts of Americans everywhere...
Charles Oscar Finley, owner, president, general manager and remote-control field manager of the Oakland A's. was on a typical tear. "Get this crate rolling," he ordered. Chauffeur Howard Risner nosed the sleek black Cadillac into the moving traffic and headed toward Chicago's O'Hare Airport. "Shoot the works," said Finley. Risner hit a button, and downtown Chicago echoed to the Caddie's musical horn. "Now the siren," demanded Finley. A muted wail sent other cars skittering for the curb. Finley switched on a loudspeaker hidden beneath the hood and began broadcasting a stream of chatter to startled...
Detroit's black Mayor Coleman Young raced to the scene and spent the whole night trying to calm the crowds. So did a number of other officials and clergymen. Young also ordered in some 600 police, armed with riot helmets, nightsticks and tear gas, but under strict orders that "the use of fatal force [is] prohibited unless ... life is endangered." Not a shot was fired, and crowds dispersed at dawn...
...firing a shot. In the 1967 rioting, 43 people died and property damage came to $64 million. This time two men were dead, 100 arrested, and property damage was comparatively minor. "We were pretty close to the brink," said Young, "[but] we're not going to let anybody tear up this city." Credit for that can go largely to Mayor Young himself...