Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plea for a $3 billion deficit in the fiscal year ahead to stimulate the economy and shrink unemployment. Trying to be helpful, Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman Henry S. Reuss said he was sure that Slichter did not really favor a deficit "as such." Retorted Slichter, touching off a burst of laughter: "I think...
...Lhasa. As word spread among the 55,000 inhabitants of the city, angry Tibetans thronged around the towering, 40-ft. Potala (Winter Palace), so that the Dalai Lama could not leave it, even if he wished to. When the Dalai Lama's mother heard the news, she burst into tears, and a crowd of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general, begging help for the Dalai Lama. Some Lhasans broke into an armory, handed out guns and ammunition...
...Burst into a Havana radio and TV station, rambled on for three hours and 20 minutes about threats of counterrevolution. His enemies, he protested, "are buying arms in Miami," and the FBI is doing nothing to prevent...
...growth of ultrasonics. Before the development of ultrasonic cleaners, jet-engine nozzles and oil filters had to be thrown away when dirty. Now imbedded residue can be removed in minutes through the use of sound energy. The sound waves whip the water into millions of microscopic bubbles which burst against the material, ripping dirt away. No transistor core goes to its final assembly package without an ultrasonic bath to remove impurities...
...prison reminiscence. He has Gabriel's own gift of the gab, a cold eye for himself, a warm heart for others, and the narrative speed of a tinker. On the whole, he also makes good his claim to "a sense of humour that would nearly cause me to burst out laughing at my own funeral, providing...