Word: tearfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Aram has as many eccentric uncles as Gracie Allen. Each of them is worth a Saroyan comic-tear or two. Uncle Melik "was just about the worst farmer that ever lived." On his godforsaken desert farm, he set out hundreds of pomegranate trees, poured all his love and money into them, lost both trees and land. Once he looked a horned toad straight in the eye. Then...
...Associated Farmers supplied the aggressive action. During the Salinas agricultural strike in 1936 and the Stockton strike in 1937, they acted with tear gas and shotguns. The stench of blood and powder hung long over California's Imperial Valley. Strikes were broken, but so was the secretive silence that had surrounded these private affairs in the Valley. For direct action the Associated Farmers turned to quieter campaigns in the State Legislature...
...tear-gas squad rushed to the Plaza, but was warned that one whiff might kill scores of the diseased mob. A messenger ran to fetch Minister of the Interior Miguel Culaciati, who was attending a funeral. At noon Minister Culaciati received an exhausted, coughing delegation, promised to look into the matter of the vaccine...
...idealist who picked Avila Camacho because he was his old War Minister and seemed to be the strongest man for the job. He was chosen last July 7 in an election which mocked democracy-in which both sides kept their opponents away from the ballots, in which electioneers used tear gas and brickbats and lead. So controversial was his right to claim the Presidency that the real campaigning did not begin until after the election. For a time it looked as if General Almazán would surely assert his right in the old-fashioned Mexican way, by revolt...
...sleeve-hearted age, when even General Washington could shed a distinguished tear over a drizzly romance. Its novels were luridly plotted to make up for the complete lack of individuality in their characters: seduced female, splendid rake, long-suffering wife, noble savage, etc. Popular was the Gothic atmosphere of ruins, nightingales, skeletons, poison vials...