Word: tears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vili tribesmen friendly to his rival. When the Assembly gathered to choose the territory's future status, the abbé's rivals began throwing chairs about and smashing windows. Opangault himself whacked the Speaker over the head with a microphone. Police cleared out the invaders with tear gas, and the Assembly dutifully settled down to vote for autonomy. Then the abbé introduced a resolution postponing elections until 1962. Opangault's socialists stomped out in protest, and after they were gone the abbé was elected Premier...
...most interesting aspects of the Cyprus issue (at least for Americans) is the extremely awkward position in which it places the United States. All the governments directly involved are U.S. allies and all are members of NATO. The "backside" of NATO is already beginning to tear apart at the seams because of Cyprus. And it is very much in the United States' interest that the matter be settled fast--before NATO is further weakened, and before we are forced to make a clear-cut choice between allies...
Less U, More H. Co-Author Frank's tear-shot camera eye pans in on Sheilah Graham when she was still Lily Sheil, a grimy Cockney moppet of six being carted away to the East London Home for Orphans. The eight orphanage years were Dickensian. Eventually Lily found a job as a skivy (housemaid) but soon chucked it. She had a chance to demonstrate a U-shaped toothbrush ("It fits the inside of your teeth") and her pearly performance caught the eye of U-born Major John Graham Gillam, D.S.O. It was a case of an 18-year...
...into Western Europe is now taking place. This may prove to be one of the most significant transitions of the era. Any Central European bloc would interrupt this integration. The Common Market, the Euratom plan and any further developments would be curtailed. The unification of Germany ought not to tear away the Federal Republic formally from the West until the cultural and economic ties have thoroughly permeated...
MEDEA : Ah! Leave here? If this is to be my cruel destiny, In leaving, Medea Will tear out your heart! Cruel...