Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with surprise that Cleveland Southpaw Herb Score had failed to lean into his usual fluid follow-through. A fat pitch floated up, just knee-high. McDougald lashed it back, a string-straight drive that ended in the sickening sound of a baseball meeting human bone. Pitcher Score crumpled. Blood burst from his nose and mouth...
Publisher Knight's first stirrings of distrust became evident last summer, when he warned of a new burst of inflation. His papers made their first direct attack on the President last January over one of the purely professional issues-the way advance news of the Eisenhower Doctrine was leaked to a few papers-that prompted some of the rare harsh press criticism of the Administration...
...North African spring. Enthused the correspondent: "Isn't this a wonderful place?" Madame Lacoste looked at him oddly, spat out: "I hate it, I hate it. My husband is a Socialist who spent all his life trying to help people. Now he is here killing people." Madame Lacoste burst into tears. For the French it was a tormented spring...
...number of explanations have been offered for the increased activity in the creative and performing arts that has burst upon this and other academic communities. Some say it is due to the inwardness of this generation, its close ties to Europe and a national swing to "do it yourself" in culture. While all this is partly true, the best explanation may be the impatience of this generation to live. The emphasis is removed from the old institutions of political activity. Political organizations lived on a myth. One felt a certain self-importance but it didn't make much...
...shot. His veterans had a motto: "Man that is born of woman, and enlisteth in Jackson's army, is of few days and short rations." Yet with the instinctive knowledge that distinguishes the martinet from the great captain, his ragged "foot cavalry" so revered Jackson that, whenever a burst of cheering swept the camp, men would say: "It's Jackson or a rabbit...