Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY QUESTION WHO WAS THE BOSS AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND THERE STILL ISN'T. HIS POWERFUL PERSONALITY STILL HOVERS OVER HIS SUBORDINATES. The conference room burst into loud and warm guffaws. But as the days, hours, minutes ticked by, a sense of unease-undimmed by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's reassurances-began to spread through the nation and the world...
...Yardlings found themselves losing 1 to 0 after six minutes of play until Dave Grannis tied the game with a goal at 14:35. Then, after two minutes of the second period, Crimson forward Al Alpine broke the tie and started a five-goal burst. Alpine tallied again to tie for scoring honors with Jim Dwinnell, who originally began the five-goal rally...
...health, seems to have gone through a moral regeneration. He has ordered the end of legalized opium dens; closed 27 Communist or pro-Communist newspapers and magazines; cracked down on hoodlum-run labor unions as well as three shakedown organizations formerly run by the police, and in a final burst of virtue ordered nightclubs to close at midnight. There was a time not long past when Sarit closed nightclubs in another way- as the last customer. He has concentrated on a new constitution with Gaullist overtones, a new law to encourage foreign investment, and on measures to bring down...
...same room where Errol Flynn was married to one of his three wives eight years ago. a mayor of Monte Carlo was last week about to perform another, humbler, wedding. Suddenly a liveried bailiff burst in, crying: "Monsieur Boisson! You're not mayor any more...
...often deliberately homely. Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since Byron's Childe Harold burst forth in 1812. Betjeman's 279-page volume was selling at the rate of about 1,000 copies a day, a turnover few bestselling novelists achieve...