Word: tears
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...going to parades. My grandfather and I would stand on the curb, and he'd be holding my hand; I could feel his hand breaking my fingers when the flag was coming by, and the martial music was playing. I'd look up into his face and see a tear...
Sacred Heart University competes next with a Jesus Christ-themed dance complete with preacher-like robes that they tear off after 15 seconds to reveal glittery dark blue velvet body suits with silver trim. At one point two groups of girls lift their fellow SHU dancers into the air in what resembles a crucifix, complete with heads lolled to the side...
...championship. Ice hockey assistant coaches Claudia Asano ‘99 and Jamie Hagerman ‘03 should be able to empathize as well. Both split their significant time spent in Allston between hockey and lacrosse. Hagerman came to Harvard as a two-sport athlete, but an ACL tear her sophomore year forced her to stick with hockey, while Asano was a three-year letter-winner in both...
...violence did not end. In the first week of the emergency, police and army units repeatedly clashed with black protesters, who sometimes fought with rocks against tear gas, sjamboks (short leather whips) and gunfire. Early in the week four blacks died after security forces opened fire with shotguns on 400 demonstrators in the township of Daveyton, near Johannesburg. By week's end 16 had been killed since the declaration of the emergency. The toll was surprisingly low, given the number of people involved in the areas covered by the decree. But the potential for more violence was great...
...raised in Soweto and has covered its life since the early 1960s: "Things are getting tougher, more clinical. If there is a protest march or a funeral procession, you will find buckets of water placed at every house along the way. That's in case there is tear gas, so the marchers can wash it from their eyes and their faces. That was not true at the time of the Soweto riots in 1976. The children have become more politicized. They have left the adults behind. The system is helping people to become united...