Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Connecticut: In a record-busting burst of bipartisanship, voters handed Incumbent Abraham Ribicoff, 48, the biggest plurality for a Democrat in state history -and his second term...
...shooting was Chicago-style, but the setting was Moscow. A cop surprised four masked burglars trying to break into a store. There was a burst of gunfire, and the four leaped into a taxi and fled, leaving the policeman dying from seven bullet wounds. Eyewitnesses provided one useful clue: the gunmen wore the narrow trousers, oversized jackets and ducktail haircuts of stilyagi, the Russian version of zoot-suiters...
...total of 56 games in two years. This year, with the season two-thirds gone, the Lions were 10½ games out of first place-despite the fact that Inao had already won 16 games. Inao solved that problem with a late-season burst, winning 13 games...
...warned Fed Vice Chairman C. Canby Balderston in Manhattan, if auto and mortgage credit are "radically" loosened. Balderston placed part of the blame for the recession on the $5.5 billion credit expansion in 1955, which, he said, caused companies to overexpand. He said that the danger of another credit burst "might create a widespread public demand for consumer credit controls as an alternative to enhanced cyclical fluctuations or to an increased degree of general credit restraint...
...facts hardly supported Balderston's fear of a credit burst. Consumer credit has held fairly steady this year (see chart), as consumers cautiously kept from stepping up credit buying. Furthermore, payoffs have been good; the Veterans Administration reported last week that veterans holding G.I. home loans have set a "remarkable" record by paying off some $11 billion in home mortgage debts...