Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiations with Russia; he felt deep dismay over John Foster Dulles' illness and the new American faces he must deal with; he felt pain at De Gaulle's public acceptance of the Oder-Neisse line as the German frontier on the east. His suspicions of the British burst out in the open before the week...
...should go directly to the Dalai Lama instead of being reverently submitted through his Cabinet. It was even worse to demand that the Living Buddha attend a meeting alone without his ceremonial train of senior abbots and court officials. On hearing the news, the Dalai Lama's mother burst into tears. Thousands of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general and begged the consul to accompany them while they handed a protest petition to the Red Chinese. The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken from...
...reached into her handbag and pulled out a Smith & Wesson .38. Holding it with both hands ("I was afraid I would miss," she explained later), she opened fire. Last week, on trial for murder in Naples, she defiantly declared: "I would do it again!" With that, the whole courtroom burst into cheers...
President Eliot himself was affected by two typical dormitory conflagrations caused by student carelessness. One night a classmate of Eliot, who was then an undergraduate in Holworthy Hall, was careless in feeding his "camphene" lamp, which suddenly burst into flames. The fire was doused with little trouble, however, as was one in a Hollis room below Eliot's a year later...
...Reitan and 20-year-old, Toronto-born Soprano Teresa Stratas. Baritone Reitan, who was turned down by a Met scout four years ago when he auditioned on his wedding day, took the news fairly calmly, but tiny (5 ft.) Soprano Stratas, a senior at the University of Toronto, promptly burst into tears. She kissed Conductor Kurt Adler and everyone else in sight, announced: "I can't wait. I want so much, I want to do things." Met staffers, struck by her facial and temperamental resemblance to another emotional soprano with a Greek name, have already pinned a nickname...