Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the right-wing youths, numbering as many as a thousand, charged back and forth clubbing everyone in their path, including reporters and photographers, the riot police shot tear gas canisters into the remaining conglomeration of marchers. As pistol shots began to ring in the air tanks pulled up behind the column of demonstrators. They were trapped. Some students took refuge in the Normal subway station, others hid in private houses and a nearby hospital. Some of the marchers tried to get away in cars...
Gunfire sounded continuously. Many cars and even a Red Cross ambulance were riddled with bullets. While uniformed police stood aside out of the fighting, only shooting tear gas into the crowd periodically, armed plainclothes police took part in some of the most intense fighting and, Clay said, were responsible for much of the shooting. The main column of the marchers dispersed, the battle raged over twenty city blocks. Armed vehicles and military patrols waited at street-corners without participating in the hand-to-hand fighting all around them. Snipers of unknown political orientation fired down into the street from positions...
...bottle, fall into debt and observe bitterly: "Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum." Marine Ira Hayes, one of the idolized flag raisers at Iwo Jima, died at 32 in a drunken stupor, frozen in the wintry outdoors of an Indian reservation. Similar strains tear at relatively unknown Congressional Medal of Honor winners as their wartime exploits dog them. Marine Johnny Basilone, decorated for bravery at Guadalcanal, was obsessed with the notion that someone else had done the deeds for which he was honored, refused his right to seek a Stateside assignment, and was killed...
...Even other protesters, he admits, "all look alike to me; they all say the same thing." He makes little apparent effort to speak differently himself as he turns on the old rhetoric of the New Left. "The conflagration is rising"-as ever. It is "a time to tear and pull down," a time to "resign from America in order to join the heart of man." Like a prayer wheel, he grinds on mechanically about "national illness . . . madness . . . the latest American idiocy...
...many larger cities police community-relations programs and more sophisticated riot-control methods have helped ease trouble. Police have learned to avoid provocative confrontations; now they slip into the ghetto quietly instead of barging in with sirens wailing. If trouble does come, the cops tend to use tear gas instead of bullets...