Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father in Sounder earned him an academy award nomination, plays the title role in It's Good to Be Alive: The Story of Roy Campanella. Campanella was the Brooklyn Dodgers catcher whose career ended when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident. This might be another soapy, tear-jerking rip-off of Brian's Song. But with Winfield around, it also stands a good chance of being worth watching. Ch. 7, 9 p.m. 2 hours...
...distinguished only by boxes of geraniums set outside the second story bedroom windows, a gold bronzed door knocker the size of three fists of shaped like a gargoyle, and a wooden scroll with Welcome All Ye Who Enter etched in red, tacked upon the molding. Inside a chandelier, tear-shaped bits of glass strung together in the form of a globe, dangles in the hallway; the walls are bumpy, like just dried mud plaster, broken by an oil painting of a girl in a red equestrian's uniform astride an auburn thoroughbred in a forest. The living roomis furnished...
...wait for the blacks descended upon them. On the one side of the blacks stood the closed school doors from which the handles had long since been removed to prevent trespassers from entering the school in between periods. To their other side loomed a mass of white fists, tear-streamed faces and rapidly-moving lips mouthing the language of racial hatred...
...afternoon of the 16th, the police started shooting in the air and patrolling the city with armored tear-gas vehicles. Hundreds of tear-gas canisters were thrown into the Institute. The student-security committee, however, directed people to light fires and wear protective masks to neutralize the effects of the gas. The first pleas for medical equipment and supplies came from the radio station. The injury lists grew...
...tear out my beard and uncover my head...