Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police arrested demonstrators and bystanders indiscriminately throughout the morning and frequently used pepper gas and tear gas to break up bands of demonstrators who roamed the streets trying to block intersections with debris...
...Laos Operation Lam Son 719 [April 5] was less emotional and biased than most, until you button up your "report" with the unfair quip citing, as an old Army tradition, "There always is a scapegoat." How would you handle such a failure in leadership? The Army that you tear away at protects your right to do so-and has done so faithfully for almost 200 years...
...demonstrators are presently camping in West Potomac Park, just south of the Lincoln Memorial. They had originally intended to stay in Rock Creek Park, a much larger area in the northern part of the city, but Mayday organizers were afraid that because the park is a valley, any tear gas used by police against demonstrators would remain permanently over the campsite...
...elevated system. Commuters come into the city almost exclusively by car and bus. Three bridges across the Potomac handle all the traffic from Virginia. Three or four roads carry all the cars from the north. It is an almost absurdly easy city to paralyze. Police may react with tear gas or possibly mass arrests. No matter what they do, the city will be shut down. During a normal rush hour a single accident on Connecticut Avenue is enough to delay traffic for half an hour. A thousand people sitting in the street, mass arrests, and tear gas would cause utter...
...have to come right out and admit we're not hitting. We've built a 13-2 record on bunting, stealing, hit-and-run, and taking advantage of errors. That can't go on forever. What we need now is a three or four game stretch where we tear the cover off the ball...