Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deputies, 350 strong, surrounded the plant, brought up machine guns, ominously set up a dressing station for expected casualties with a Red Cross flag prominently displayed. The sit-downers retaliated by arming themselves with wrenches, rolling airplanes to the windows so that their propellers could be used to blow tear gas out of the plant. They distributed drums of paint with which they threatened to fire the building. Undeterred, police called for the fire department and prepared to storm the plant if the sit-downers would not surrender. At that tense moment Dr. Towne Nylander, regional director of the National...
...were suddenly awakened at 5:15 a. m. by a bombardment of gas shells and grenades. Looking out they beheld a strange object, a 20-ft. wooden tower erected on the rear end of a truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their noses with wet rags, their eyes with castor oil, and hurled machine parts and small containers of acid at the tower. Inventor of the tower...
...almost as bizarre as Berkeley's. Someone drove a knife into the head of one Frank Hill, Negro, and broke off the handle (see cut). The victim's skull was so thick that the surgeons could not pull out the blade without wriggling it, and wriggling would tear his brain irreparably. The surgeons therefore sawed the man's skull around the blade, lifted bone and blade together, expected uneventful recovery...
...gases are classified as 1) lacrimators (tear-gas); 2) systemic toxic agents (blood poisons); 3) lung injurants; 4) respiratory irritants; 5) vesicants (blister-producers). As War gases the first two are the least destructive. Tear-gases have some value because very low concentrations force masking, with attendant loss of efficiency and morale; 6,000 tons of lacrimators were used throughout...
...however, the first use in the War of noxious gas. In August 1914 the French began shooting rifle grenades containing the tear-gas ethylbromacetate and later used another lacrimator, chloracetone, in both rifle and hand grenades. First German gas used (January 1915) was the lacrimator zylyl bromide ("T-Stoff"). The casualty effect of these was negligible...