Word: tear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Racks for sale dresses are stripped clean. Two women tugging on a Dior dress tear its seams. Caught in crush, one elderly lady faints and is hurried off to first aid. Survivors scurry off to corners, sort through dresses, throwing rejects on floor. They swap sizes with one another and exchange telephone numbers for later bartering. Mrs. Conroy: "You've got to hold your dresses tightly; otherwise some of those old squaws will sneak up behind you and snitch a few of them...
...racial enmity, worsened by last May's re-election of Mayor Sam Yorty over black Councilman Tom Bradley. At 5:30 a.m. last Monday, two Panther offices and one private home were attacked by 300 Los Angeles policemen armed with arrest warrants, search warrants, shotguns, AR-15 rifles, tear-gas grenades, satchel charges, one helicopter, 6-ft. steel battering rams, a National Guard armored personnel carrier, and a fire department "jet-ax" used to cut through the roof of burning buildings. The principal target was Panther headquarters, a two-story brown-and-white brick building at 41st Street...
...battle was right out of Viet Nam," reports TIME Correspondent Martin Sullivan. "Hundreds of rounds were fired. The police hurled everything in their armory at the building: that it still stands is a miracle." When the fray was finally over, 13 Panthers stumbled out through the tear gas and gun smoke to surrender, three of them wounded-including the two women who had been inside. Three policemen were injured...
...bought from her. He saw Americal Division troops pound sand into the mouth of an old man suspected of being a V.C. They poured water down his throat until he nearly drowned. When he still would not talk, they unleashed a Doberman war dog ?and watched the dog tear the man from head to belly. Then they left...
...retains a nuclear arsenal big enough to deter potential enemies despite the elimination of the biological stocks. The President also made it absolutely clear that the restrictions on chemical weapons did not include CS gas-a stronger version of tear gas-or defoliants that are being used in Viet Nam. But the proscribing of germ warfare and the restated strictures on chemical warfare provide concrete evidence of America's strong desire to slow down the arms race. Together with the joint signing of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty by the U.S. and the Soviets (see THE WORLD), Nixon...