Word: tears
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...border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, some 17 miles from Yuma, Ariz. There an estimated 1,500 Panistas tried to free 30 supporters who had been arrested for breaking open a ballot box they claimed was stuffed. Some 20 people were injured as authorities dispersed the mob with tear gas and clubs and the protesters burned several police and private vehicles...
...President mended last week, the battered congressional budget process threatened to tear apart. Rancorous negotiations between congressional leaders to resolve differences in the House and Senate budget resolutions collapsed. "I assume that means no budget," huffed House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray, a Pennsylvania Democrat. His Senate counterpart, Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico, was equally gloomy: "Everywhere I turn I see no way to go." Senate Republicans were still smarting from what they regard as an act of betrayal by the White House. They had voted in May to eliminate the cost of living adjustment on Social Security...
...aboard six municipal buses and demanded to be taken to a magistrates court where 105 black youths were being charged with holding an illegal demonstration at the home of Edward Kunene, Soweto's mayor. The students sang and chanted outside the courthouse until mounted police cleared the area with tear gas and rubber bullets. About 500 of the protesters were arrested but then released after the bus company declined to press hijacking charges. The students soon joined thousands of other Sowetans in an orgy of violence that included the fire bombing of Kunene's house, the looting of stores...
...Bellow's novels, Herzog was in essence Bellow's story: woman-crowded, it reflected his fractious marital and personal history. He married five times, engaged in spirited, sometimes acrimonious quarrels with his three sons, lovers, other writers, old friends. In order to write, he claimed, he needed to tear up his life...
...Crash begins, people of Hispanic, Korean, African, Caucasian, and Middle-Eastern descent verbally tear holes in each other—a Martian could pick up on the racial tension...