Word: tore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turf that George Wallace considers his own, Humphrey tore into the Alabamian with unmatched savagery-and won applause. "I've been told one hundred and one times this may not be the place [to criticize Wallace], but I think it is," Humphrey told a crowd of 10,000 in Knoxville. "He stands, and he has always stood, as the apostle of the politics of fear and racism," cried the Vice President. "Some of his political managers and even some of his presidential electors are drawn from the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens Councils, the John...
...August 29, soldiers and police entered the community near the high school that had been the focus of the first police intervention and beat up people and warned them to keep their kids off the street. On August 30, soldiers dressed like civilians came with guns and literally tore apart one of the dissenting high schools. This was meant to show the people what their demonstrations would accomplish. On August 30, the students decided that they would no longer go near the Zocalo or any of the areas patrolled by the army...
...Moscow? In the countryside, Czechoslovak farmers tore down or changed the direction of every road sign they could find, even coordinated a circular route that put one Polish division back at its own border after traveling 36 miles. Lost tank commanders were greeted by a forest of new road signs that read: "To Moscow: 2,000 kilometers." In Bohemia, gypsies dismantled tank antennas while townspeople engaged the crews in friendly conversation. When Russian security officers started arriving in Prague to round up well-known liberals, residents daubed their house numbers with paint and switched virtually every street marker...
...what happened next in a letter to major Western newspapers. "Almost immediately, whistles were heard from all corners of the square, and plainclothes agents of the KGB [secret police] came running toward us. They shouted, 'These are all Jews!' and 'Beat the anti-Soviets!' They tore the banners from our hands and beat Viktor Feinberg in the face until the blood flowed, also breaking some of his teeth. Pavel Litvinov was beaten on the face with a heavy case. They shouted, 'Get out of here, you scum!' We remained seated...
Soviet Viceroy. Meanwhile the Soviet ambassador to Prague, Stepan Chervonenko, acting like a Soviet viceroy, feverishly tried to put together a workable government. The Russians imposed a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew in the streets, tore down inflammatory posters, and issued stern warnings against provocations. They also set up their own newspaper and a radio station called Radio Vltava, which could hardly compete with the free stations. Russian security men began arresting liberal intellectuals who had caused chagrin in the Kremlin. Among those held under house arrest was Ladislav Mnac-ko, author of the novel The Taste of Power...