Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawrence Higby, defined the Administration's interest in the Huntley case as a lever against all TV news broadcasting: "The point behind this whole thing is that we don't care about Huntley-he is going to leave anyway. What we are trying to do is to tear down the institution...
...August morning in 1970, Antiwar Activist Karleton Lewis Armstrong was still making good his escape when he heard the bomb he had helped plant tear out the sides of the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center. Four persons were wounded and a physicist was killed. Caught in Canada early last year and finally extradited, Armstrong, 27, pleaded guilty six weeks ago in Madison, Wis., to second-degree murder and arson-but not before an unusual bit of plea bargaining. Armstrong wanted, as Attorney William Kunstler put it, "a chance to bring to his compatriots what...
...decayed, But your record is good, you have proved you belong With the best of the boys you have played. Princeton's Tiger has come with its fangs and claws bared To dismember our hopes and our dreams. Meet the challenge fair Harvard, it's hereby declared: Triumph! Tear them apart at the seams...
Wright, who was preparing to argue the Stennis compromise before Sirica at noon, was astonished. Nixon was surrendering in a battle he had waged for three months, causing the wear and tear of national controversy plus immense injury to his own reputation as one who wanted the full truth of Watergate exposed...
...last week the number of students flooding into Bangkok had swelled to several hundred thousand. They gathered in front of the Parliament building where police attacked them with tear gas, and the riot was on. Vehicles and government buildings were burned, including the offices of Thanom's son, Colonel Narong Kittikachorn, who was suspected by many students of maneuvering to be Thailand's next Prime Minister. I watched the modern office building that houses the national lottery being put to the torch. Explained one student: "It's good that we burn the lottery, because it only robs...