Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with their whopping bouquets, little groups here and there tried to spark pro-Soviet chants, but their efforts fell flat. Hastily, a band struck up a tune, the old nationalist Prussian Glory march. As Khrushchev finally launched into a speech, a husky Negro, resplendent in billowing orange tribal robes, burst through police lines, capered up to the platform and reached out at him. Kicked and pummeled back into the crowd by the horrified Ulbricht's cops, after he had managed to shake hands with Khrushchev, the man turned out to be no assassin, but a Nigerian student...
Domestically, the phony cost-of-living index, artfully manipulated to conceal the inflationary upcreep, has finally burst through its ceiling, setting off an automatic 5.5% minimum wage rise for 800,000 employees. With every allowance for crop failures, the cost of Suez and the price of Algeria's billion-franc-a-day war, said Gaillard, France's "fundamental" trouble is that "for several years our internal consumption has been rising more rapidly than our production...
...acres, destroyed the homes and farmlands of hundreds of thousands of peasants. Radio Peking, acknowledging the magnitude of the floods, said that 20,000 life-buoys and thousands of tons of food had been airdropped to marooned villages. In eastern Honan province two more tributaries of the Yellow River burst their dikes, bringing the total area devastated by flood to more than 7,400,000 acres...
...hail-halter (TIME, May 20), Krick now serves 200 companies, 260 radio stations and the Mexican Department of Agriculture. As a controversial proponent of really long-range predictions, Krick insists that daily weather can be foretold as far ahead as several years. His most famous forecast: a magic burst of sunshine for the inaugural committee just as President Eisenhower stepped onto the reviewing stand last January. Krick's system ("Do they think I use tea leaves?") is based on a theory that weather repeats itself in wavelike patterns, plus a newly rented (for $50,000 a year) Remington Rand...
...joyous interracial sea of gap-toothed, freckled faces, cutely squalling songs off-key-the sort of kiddies' night program that could break up a P.T.A. meeting. When Cary and Deborah at last clinch again on Christmas Day, it is a miracle that the juvenile choir does not burst in shrieking Away in a Manger...