Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is no doubt that Nixon will try to get away with it. "You are here to say good-bye to us," he said in his tear-stained farewell speech to the White House staff. "And we don't have a good word for it in English. The best is au revoir. We'll see you again...
...flight. Designed and built out of balsa wood and plastic by sheriffs deputies (who are also model-airplane buffs), the new gadget patrolling the skies was a pilotless plane remotely controlled from the ground. The 8-lb. airborne arsenal can carry up to 2 Ibs. of smoke bombs and tear-gas canisters-to say nothing of grenades and other explosives -strapped to its underbelly...
...George said such a plan would prove unfeasible. "The way the building's built, you pretty much either have to live with it or tear it down," he said, "and the state of the economy is such that no one is about to do that kind of work...
Next door, in another Southwestern town, NBC's Petrocelli (Barry Newman) is a Harvard-trained lawyer whose big-city tactics are guaranteed to grate on his new neighbors. And working out of his Depression-era home farm in Idaho, CBS's The Manhunter (Ken Howard) will tear across the country in his 1929 Cadillac, hauling in would-be Bonnies, Clydes and Dillingers...
...wear and tear are greater on the men's circuit, where cowboys spend most of their time just "going down the road"-their phrase for traveling to the next competition. Because prize money is spread among the 600 rodeos that make up the organized circuit sanctioned by the Cowboys Association, they have to hit a hundred or more every season to hope to make a living. (Even then, few earn as much as $ 10,000 a year...