Overhead hang gas lamps, long ago converted to electricity but still suggestive of turn-of-the-century shopping expeditions for Eastern European face creams and pre-antibiotic remedies.
THIS year around 100 Americans will be poisoned, hanged, gassed, shot or electrocuted.
Officers wearing camouflage are often seen around Fort Bragg, wanted posters hang in gas stations and convenience stores, hikers and hunters have been advised to stay out of the forest, and the city's middle school was locked down after the police received a tip that Mr. Bassler had been seen in the area (he was not found).
Never hang the gas mask up by the straps which fasten it on over the head.
Tear gas hung heavy in the air as riot police scattered the thugs, firing rubber bullets.
But residue of tear gas hung in the air outside, inducing itchy eyes and sneezing.
"It could blow at any time," he said, as the faint trace of tear gas hung in the air.
Several hundred riot police milled about, looking up the street toward a front line over which a pall of tear gas hung like a white veil.
Even in the most barren times, when cigarette smoke hung like tear gas in mean little honky-tonks and he might have missed a step on his way to the stage, he gave them something they were looking for.
"It was provocation," said one female protester, who asked to be referred to as Deniz A., standing in Gezi Park on Tuesday afternoon as tear gas hung in the air.
By evening a number of flaming barricades were still blocking roads, while acrid clouds of tear gas hung over several blocks as local residents caught in the running fighting took shelter in supermarkets and cafes.
