Word: tears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would find out later that Jessica was a physical education teacher, but he did not know it at the time, so when the old woman began to claw away at the circle, literally to tear people's arms apart, the boy was more than a little amazed. In the process of fighting to keep her out, he injured his big toe; someone kicked the nail, which tore off, and the toe started of bleed. But the boy hung on, until Jessica finally made it in and, finding herself suddenly in the middle, burst out in that same expression of indescribable...
...Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, sees his duties as primarily pastoral. To give young church dissidents a greater sense of participation in council affairs, he recently invited 75 staff members to a two-day get-together near Montreux. Told they could speak their minds freely, they proceeded to tear apart everything from the way the council organizes its assemblies to the management of its worldwide programs...
...Referendum Campaign, "and if the poor workers of the city want rent control they will have to roll over the City Council. We're going to roll over you guys. You have done nothing to stop the Universities. Harvard students will stop Harvard even if we have to tear it apart like Columbia and San Francisco State...
...that I am somehow a member of an elite, I cannot convince myself that I'm an individual within it. The things I have to say about Harvard College, I can find, more or less, already written down--some of them more than a century ago. The tensions which tear at me inside are all documented in Erik Erikson's books; it seems they are tearing at every other adolescent's insides as well. I begin to fear there are no roads not taken...
...They tear gassed the defenders and trained water cannons at students on the roof. Using power saws, sledgehammers and blowtorches, they battered and burned down the barricades while a police helicopter sprayed tear gas down on the building. Resistance ended the afternoon of the second day and the beaten Zengakuren were led off to jail. There were 631 arrests, but, amazingly, only three students and two policemen were listed as seriously injured...