Word: tearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Berkeley St. homeowners met last night to plan a strategy against a Cambridge developer who intends to tear down three century-old buildings in their neighborhood and replace them with high-rise apartments...
Thus concretized on the public record lies the documentation of a systematic, covert corruption of the free reporting that is essential to freedom of the press. If the mind could any longer be boggled, surely this picture of a government plotting in secret to "tear down the institution," "to pound the magazines and the networks," to threaten the media with anti-trust prosecutions and IRS investigations to "change their views," to "plant" columns, to "generate...(and even write) a massive outpouring of letters" where no public impulse to do so existed, to "needle" a publisher, to "pester" a newspaper...
...sheds a desultory tear when Kit kills her father but becomes quickly absorbed in her relationship with her new, and first, boy friend. She draws a snug blanket of smarmy romanticism over everything. Hiding out in the countryside, Kit and Holly build a tree house and pretend they are pioneers. When they are discovered and Kit guns the intruders down, she watches it all as if he were bagging a couple of animals for supper...
Spinal discs, cushionlike pads that separate the vertebrae, are composed of tough, cartilaginous fibers and filled with water and a protein called "ground substance." When surrounding tissues tear, the disc bulges, or slips, out of its normal position, causing pain in the back and, when it pushes against the sciatic nerve, in the legs...
...Suddenly the scenery changed. Friday night. A few hundred people left outside after the armed cars invaded the area. We heard shooting. It was about nine or ten....And then I realized that we were not risking only a little pain from a club. We were risking our lives. Tear bombs filled the area, policemen were shooting at the few hundred people that were left in front of the Polytechnic School. What we heard was the continuous shooting the tear bombs falling, us shouting for freedom and bleeding or dying people shouting from pain and despair. That scene really blinded...