Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shift of prisoners was marching out of the mess hall at the Illinois State Penitentiary at Pontiac; the next group came shuffling by, headed toward the tables. Suddenly more than 100 convicts were battling with cleaning utensils, metal trays and homemade knives. The melee lasted until a guard fired tear-gas grenades into the hall 20 minutes later−too late to save the lives of two young convicts who had been stabbed...
...Left Bank for a protest march that was to end up at the Defense Ministry. Squads of tough riot police made sure that the demonstrators never got anywhere near their objective, but there were some sharp skirmishes that left bloodied heads and at least a whiff of the tear gas that had drifted in clouds over the city five years earlier...
...blink a tear and the boy is gone," moans the sound-track chorus as the stern-wheeler chunks off downriver. The boy will be back in a couple of weeks-he's just taking a vacation with Judge Thatcher and Becky-but the kind of minds who find it natural and necessary to turn Tom Sawyer into a musical cannot be expected to resist topping their concoction with a thick glop of Reddi-wip sentiment...
Shift. Nixon has argued lately that he needs exactly such flexible authority to get other countries to tear down barriers to U.S. goods. Just how such authority would work out in practice is difficult to predict, because the only consistency in the President's record on trade is that he has seemed to shift with the political winds. Recently, he has loosened U.S. quotas on imports of meat and oil, in response to rising public worry about inflation and the shortage of fuel. But he has also bowed to business pressure and restricted imports of textiles and steel. Some...
...experience the wear and tear of raising children alone removes a woman indefinitely from the "swinging single" category. In fact, the only term I can think of to describe myself is "sagging single...