Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombing resumes anywhere in Indochina, however, the eerie quiet will be shattered. Eventually, the voices of the screaming children will be heard in Harvard Yard. Protest will slowly mount again, first in the form of picket lines and peaceful demonstrations, then, if the killing continues, the tear-gas and the riot-equipped police and the rocks sailing lazily into the plate glass windows will return to the Square. It may take a long time,but the criminality in Indochina will again be answered in the streets at home...
...radicals, of course, were always more strenuous in their opposition to the war, but their participation in trashing demonstrations one day did not make it impossible for them to bail out of jail, wash off the tear gas, and join a peaceful rally the next. The antiwar movement was always characterized by several levels of participation: liberal students headed for law school could not avoid a career-crippling arrest by steering clear of militant demonstrations and still contribute meaningfully to ending the was by joining the peaceful waves of people who clogged the streets in quiet and orderly marches...
...five-tons and, most important, about 60 big tankers used for taking fuel to the capital. All have been disabled by their owners, who have removed the wheels and hidden the carburetors or the distributors. The men are listening to a news report describing how their wives are being tear-gassed and hosed down by water cannons in front of the presidential palace, where they had gone to demonstrate for their husbands' cause...
...East Germans have already taken their raps for the Wall," says a high-ranking U.S. diplomat in West Berlin. "They are not about to tear it down." They are under little pressure to do so. After years of being ostracized, East Germany is currently enjoying international acceptance. It is about to become a member of the United Nations, and it has already received diplomatic recognition from 89 countries. The U.S. is on the brink of establishing relations. A State Department delegation will arrive in East Berlin shortly to discuss, among other things, the location of a U.S. embassy. One possible...
Even more disturbing is that some quick-buckers have started on the satire routine. Here's a juicy line from Ludwig von Wolfgang Vulture: "Now one of the flock would dip down in a 61/2-point inverted roll and tear off a chunk of the festering flesh of the decaying cow or sow, the flesh already gone black, squirming with blind maggots." And here's the twist: Ludwig gets hooked on speed reading and expects a Fulbright or Rhodes; instead he gets banished. Or try this for satire: "He knew that perfect speed is never having to say you're slow...