Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ecumenical movement is that the lay public innocently supposes that this is the 'nature of the unity we seek,' and then cannot comprehend why we waste so much time 'negotiating' when we ought at once to fall on each other's necks and burst out together into Schiller's Hymn...
...first burst of postwar inflation came when pent-up demand and wartime savings caused such a scramble to buy that shortages turned up everywhere, and most businessmen cashed in by raising prices. Then came the Korean war, and once more a scramble for materials and goods sent prices soaring. Wages were slow in catching up. In fact, after General Motors set up the first automatic "annual improvement factor" increase in wage contracts in 1950, Charles E. Wilson, then G.M. president, said: "It is not primarily wages that push up prices. It is primarily prices that pull up wages." After...
...Then, after a closing speech ("Learn all you can about the Government so you can continue this great republic of ours"), the Missouri Waltz welled up and Truman scurried downstairs to the basement control room to get the verdict on the show. The other pros greeted him with a burst of applause...
...soft June afternoon burst to a deep, mechanical snarl, and the gently rolling countryside south of Le Mans, France came alive as 54 low-slung sports cars whirled into the start of "les vingt-quatre heures," auto racing's classic Grand Prix of Endurance. Once more the famous 24-hour race promised spectacular trouble. Last year's exercise in safety had been a dull performance as refueling rules held everyone down to reasonable speeds; there had been only one fatality. Last week the promoters decided to gamble again. Almost as if they had forgotten 1955's monstrous...
...week trooped well-heeled symphony patrons alongside wide-eyed teen-agers and hep college students. While the brasses and strings shimmered and the drums rolled, the man they had come to see strolled from the wings in V-necked shirt and snug blue slacks. When the hard white lights burst on him, Harry Belafonte hunched his shoulders and launched his husky baritone into the exuberant Muleskinner Blues...