Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of the Law the Jewish priesthood undertook a sweeping reform of current religious practice. Jeremiah bitterly opposed the resulting emphasis on ritual and statute. The priests and temple prophets threw him into bondage and imprisonment for his views, and sometimes his grief at Israel's indifference burst from him. in the kind of lamentation that ever since has been labeled with his name...
...printing company was established around the corner from the CRIMSON offices, and this was utilized for a renewed burst of extra editions appearing in the nineties. Copy, which usually concerned football or baseball games, was dropped from the stands wrapped around rocks and rushed to the composing rooms on bicycles. Once again extras greeted spectators as they left the stands...
...escape from ordinary, everyday life. But he was too little of an esthete to flee into the world of art-for-art's-sake, too much of a romantic to want the grim, bare world of the French realists-a world whose fiction he described, in a rare burst of savagery, as "that meat-market of middle-aged sensuality." After a spell of youthful Bohemianism, Stevenson dropped anchor in his own fair harbor-the world of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The New Arabian Nights...
...drums. Standout scene: Joan's trial. Claudel and Honegger make her judges animals, with Porcus, a pig, presiding. Porcus (dramatically sung by Tenor Joseph Laderoute) screams his charges and denunciations, and the chorus howls "Hérétique! . . . Sorcière!" Joan finally dies in a flaming burst of music from chorus and orchestra. After a stunned pause, the audience demanded ten curtain calls of cast and conductor...
President Truman, in a burst of feeling for a free economy, had denounced controls as marks of a police state, but near year's end he pleaded for authority to clap them on again. He cried: "It is far too late in the fight against inflation to place our main reliance" on businessmen. Had U.S. industry failed...