Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MATTHEW S. MESELSON, professor of Biology. Meselson's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1969 helped bring about President Nixon's decision that year to end the stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons. Meselson later warned Senate committees that American use of tear gas in Vietnam contributed to the breakdown of taboos against employing such weapons...
...diamond, perhaps, a tear...
...been Agnes's most constant companion, hears weeping in the night; at first, it seems a baby's howl, but her own child has long been dead. She runs to Agnes's room; outside, Karin and Maria stand silent and motionless. She goes to Agnes, and sees a tear running down the corpse's face. Agnes asks Anna for Karin, but when Karin enters the older sister rejects the younger: "I want no part of your death...If I loved you it might be different, but I don't love you." It is a cogent argument. Maria enters next...
...Durban municipal employees; their walkout caused litter to pile up in the streets and forced white housewives to perform the unaccustomed task of carting away their own garbage. At nearby Hammarsdale, where 7,00 blacks left their jobs, a crowd of 200 was dispersed by police with tear gas after the demonstrators had brandished clubs and chanted "Usutu!", a traditional Zulu...
...Ford enters the deanship for the second time, he will find a Faculty closer to unity than it has been since the issues surrounding the Vietnam war and student protest began to tear it apart. Although minority segments continue to challenge the Faculty's positions, few still hold the bitter hatreds which threatened to permanently divide this community...