Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when on April 15, 1970, Harvard Square erupted into a mad scene of police, tear gas, snarling dogs, broken windows and street fighting, we thought, "What in the hell is going on?" and wondered if the revolution we kept hearing about was more than a rhetorical prop. One senior I knew, who had been waiting a long time for that day, was in the Health Services with the flu. As he watched the police forays down Mt. Auburn Street, he begged the nurses to let him out. Instead, he ended up on the phone to The Crimson filing riot reports...
...then, the hapless Terrapins could barely sell a ticket, much less win a game. So Driesell staged his own gate-building, one-man show. In times of crisis, he would leap off his Hollywood director's chair stationed next to the bench and fall on his knees-or tear off his jacket and stomp on it. In more joyful moments, he would dance the boogaloo and even lead the crowd in cheers. To confuse opponents, he once had his players switch jersey numbers. To "get the crowd going with us," he has charged onto the floor and deliberately drawn...
...University, called to protest the arrest of anti-regime student leaders, 3,000 students decided to march on the capital's central square. At the university bridge over the Nile, they were halted and turned back to their campus by riot police equipped with helmets, shields, batons and tear gas. There were later protests across the city at Ain Shams University, but at week's end the government neatly nipped both demonstrations by ending the current semester ten days ahead of schedule and dispatching riot police to enforce the sudden holiday...
...parks, its wide-domed churches brightly lit at night and the yellow cobblestones that pave the main boulevards. City residents, proud of their distinctive cobblestones, have successfully persuaded the municipal authorities to abandon plans to replace them with asphalt. One woman journalist explained, "We couldn't let them tear up our streets," adding, "after all, they're paved in gold...
...Anna toward Agnes, and Agnes, through the intensity of her suffering, toward peace and toward God. Death, at least as dreamed by Anna, affords no real release for Agnes. "I can't sleep, I can't leave," she murmurs from her bed, quite unmoving but for a tear that runs down her cheek from under her closed eye. She tries to draw her sisters to her, but it is only Anna who responds, only Anna in her dream who offers comfort as Agnes dwells in limbo...