Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East, the swelling force of Arab nationalism was bound to burst at some moment in Lebanon after Nasser spread his United Arab Republic to the tiny country's very border. It was the murder of a pro-Nasser editor, assassin unknown, that set off the mob against Lebanon's pro-Western government. There was no clear evidence that Nasser wanted the outbreak at that moment or had decreed its timing. He had merely fanned existing discontent beforehand, and his agents were prepared to ride it afterward. As Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios dinned encouragement of the insurrection...
Outwardly the most stable of all Arab countries, prosperous and democratic little Lebanon (pop. 1,500,000) has been rocking for months on the rim of the Arab nationalist volcano. Last week all the pent-up flames of its religious feuds and political frustrations burst into the wildest and bloodiest rioting of Lebanon's twelve years of independence...
...months had Calcutta's drowsy Government Book Depot, which handles the dreariest of official publications, experienced such a brisk burst of activity. No sooner had the first 500 copies of the central government's Act to Suppress Immoral Traffic arrived than a flood of customers snapped them up. The act, designed to outlaw brothels and subject pimps to severe punishments, was passed in 1956; but Parliament delayed enforcement so that India's prostitutes could find other ways to make a living and state governments would have time (though few bothered) to build "rehabilitation homes." Last week, just...
...After an eight-year-old boy came forward after a concert in Riga and shyly presented a photo of himself, Van took it back to the hotel, felt so touched on looking at it again that he broke down and cried. After his final audition for the competition, he burst into tears when a friend repeated to him Soviet Pianist Richter's statement that "his playing excites and moves me as only very few of the greatest have been able to." Later, at a Richter recital, Van sobbed all through the first movement of the Schubert B Flat Sonata...
...thundering over the Indonesian port of Balikpapan in Borneo. Bombs tumbled out from the opened bomb bay, and the British tanker, San Flaviano, erupted in a series of explosions that broke the vessel's back. An Indonesian corvette, anchored protectively at the harbor mouth, took a direct hit, burst into flames from stem to stern. The Royal Dutch Shell Co. hastily shut down its installations at Balikpapan, signaled oil tankers to clear the area...