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Word: tearless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ones do not build them as good as the oldtimers." Below, the river ran shallow, clear and green. Beyond sprawled the lion-toned territory. Everywhere else was a deep-blue sky like an inverted bowl; everywhere, that is, but along the terribly littered bank. Atencio gave the trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: Privacy Without Reservation | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...confrontation between Julia and Herman's mother that climaxes in a screaming match of racial slurs--Gonsalves delivers some of her most powerful lines upstage, her back to the audience; still she commands the scene. After her fight with Herman's mother, Gonsalves' face explodes in a mask of tearless rage that emphasizes the disgust she feels toward whites and toward herself...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Otherwise Engaged | 4/8/1980 | See Source »

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