Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clift, also understandable. But the outdoors doesn't lend itself to a convenient ending. Only the tragically abortive assistance of convention can reconcile the two men. In the last few minutes, "Red River" degenerates as a document of the West and winds up in a burst of horse-operatic fervor. Better see the main part again, partner, to get the bad taste out of your mouth...
Wasting no time in the third period, Dunster, sparked by the powerful line play of guards Tom O'Shea and Jake Nackshian and center Bob Kelly rolled down the field on its bucks and power pushes. Murray Pearlstein burst over center from the 12 and scored standing up, but the extra point buck again failed. A wild passing spree failed to help Lowell in the closing minutes of the game...
Torches, placards, and a beauty queen were thrown in as G.O.P. boosters indulged in a final burst of enthusiasm befor the polls open today...
Last week the bubble burst. Prodded by St. Louis' crusading newspapers and the complaints of competing dealers, the state's attorney began poking around Bob's empire. What he found was this: Knetzer lost money on every car he delivered, made his money from the suckers, who got nothing. From his huge backlog of cash deposits, Knetzer bought cars at dealers' auctions for $2,500, sold them for $1,750. Thus he could make good on enough deliveries to keep more customers-and more cash-coming. Cars were scarce, suckers were plentiful and after all, when...
...took one heliuva good football game to set the fuse. Then the firecracker burst brilliantly, violently, and briefly. Between halves, the near-nude Indian cheerleaders led their partisans out of the stands to set up a tepoe. A few of the locals offered half-hearted opposition, which resulted in a disruption of the band formations and little else...