"Concur giving tear gas cannisters and gas masks... working on obtaining machine guns," reads a CIA memo dated October 18 1970.
In the immediate aftermath of Kanye's VMA offense, he took to the media circuit, giving tear-filled apologies to Taylor, the fans, and even MTV.
The challenge is to explain why this should be so, given that tears also run the risk of signalling our presence to predators.
Horrifying statistics being given amidst tears from the teller are a hard combination to ignore.
I've forgotten the last time I cried, even though I'm not particularly strong when faced with the vagaries of life; on the contrary, I consider myself overly sentimental and given to tears.
A maximum score of 6 can be given for tears (0 = no damage, 1 = one of three meniscal areas involved (anterior, middle, and posterior horns), 2 = two of three areas involved, 3 = all three areas involved).
And given its tear-inducing pungency, the accompanying horseradish is plenty fresh.
Finally, in a drug-induced hysteria, he destroyed the one-bedroom house his mother had given him, tearing down the roof and walls and ripping out the flooring.
By the time we reach the ending, the emotional connection still hasn't been made and given the tear-jerking finales of the films that Midnight Special is so clearly modelled after, it's a major problem.
Starting on March 2, Private Manning was forced by guards at the Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Va., to sleep without clothing at night, though he has a blanket and in recent days has been given a "tear-proof smock" to wear at night, according to a Defense Department spokesman, Col. David Lapan.
