Word: torning
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...Gates said yesterday he is still torn...
...snicker at home, but they can't show their outrage or frustration in public. So the Party gets away with it?to the chagrin of the Democracy Wall dissident. At home, he still has a memento of that wall: a single brick he saved before the last bit was torn down in 1994. "People seem indifferent to politics," he says, "but if you look deeper, what they really are is scared. Some day, people will talk back at the Party again." But not, it seems, at this congress...
Campuses were not immune from the wave of backlashes and blatant intimidation. Only a week after the Sept. 11 attacks, two Muslim girls were beaten at Moraine Valley College in Palos Hills, Illinois. At the University of Connecticut, a Muslim female student had her hijab (Islamic head covering) torn off and then she was chased off campus...
Sophomore Jonathan Chu—the Crimson’s top player—was unable to play in the Regionals due to a torn stomach muscle he had developed weeks earlier...
...incredibly dramatic moment that gave me a complete sense of dislocation. All of the roots that I’d put down in the community were torn loose, making me wonder, “Now where do I fit?” And it didn’t stop there. It went on for another year, until the 1970 riot. I think the 1970 event was bigger. After the National Guard shot those kids at Kent State, there was a riot that started in Boston. A crowd of anarchists had gathered—hundreds of them—and marched...