Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retailers, who gloomily saw sales slump a month ago, last week had plenty to cheer about. A last-minute burst of holiday shopping wiped out losses of early December. Last week's sales, said the Federal Reserve Board, were so "extraordinarily good" that they boosted December's retail total to 1% or 2% above the 1956 record...
Jupiter, which had been fired successfully at least once before and failed on two other occasions, this time was only a qualified success. In a burst of fire at night that lit the missile like a futuristic firework, Jupiter swept into the sky in a first-class launching. But, said the Defense Department, it "failed to complete its full flight because of technical difficulties." Thor, on the other hand, was eminently successful. For the first time, the Air Force fired its IRBM complete: nose cone, full guidance gear-and ballast in the nose to simulate the weight of its warhead...
...moviegoing public in her first Hollywood picture-a $2,500,000 adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov, in which, as Hollywood would have it, the first lady of the European screen will be seen in a role (Grushenka) that was originally intended for Marilyn Monroe. Maria Schell has already burst on several preview audiences with a flash that clearly dazzled them, and last week the boys in the executive steamroom were sweating out the final decisions and the finishing touches on the film-the anxious countdown before the launching of a star that shrewd little Benny Thau...
...burst of klieg-lit euphoria, no less an authority than Producer and Play-tinker George Abbott once claimed that Author Shulman "seems distantly related to Dean Swift and Rabelais." This book proves that the feather merchant of U.S. humor is still keeping his distance...
...lines but much for his costumes: playing Romeo on one occasion, he cried, "Oh, let me hence, I stand on sudden haste," and then, as if wording the action to his suit, dropped "on all fours and crawled round and round the stage," searching for a buckle that had burst from his trousers. It was in a performance of Romeo and Juliet that 1) Mr. Coates was almost struck by a flung Bantam cock, 2) Paris, lying dead on the stage, was instantaneously "raised to life by 'a terrific blow on the nose from an orange...