Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SOUTH: The Attorney General would have the right to burst into all sorts of situations where he has no business, harass and thus drive from public office state or local officials whom he might suspect and, in a sense, have the unthinkable power of actually making laws. Example: he could get a court order breaking up a White Citizens' Council meeting...
...occasion for Molotov's burst of reminiscence was the 40th anniversary of his first meeting with Lenin. The milder February Revolution of 1917, sled by the Social-Democrats and the Socialist-Revolutionaries and their allies, had broken out. Most of the leading Bolsheviks were still on their way to Petrograd from places of exile. In their absence Molotov, one of the editors of Pravda, gave out Bolshevik policy: Demand the complete Marxist program forthwith. When the big Bolsheviks arrived, they pooh-poohed the youthful (27) Molotov's naive and uncompromising view. But when Lenin stepped...
Arthur Freeman has written a poem called "The Short History of Art." After an opening burst of technical terminology, the poem settles down to becoming a string of harmonics which formulate a habit of mind. On the whole, it seems to be more embellishment than formulation...
Reading the excerpts from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's latest burst of synthetic sunshine, Stay Alive All Your Life [March 25], I grew nauseous at first, and then alarmed to find that sales of all his books "have vaulted over the 4,000,000 mark." He is, I fear, the prophet of a new religion, the end of which is the conscious attainment of quiet desperation via self-administered brainwashings...
...ashamed of their clothes, and how the youngest had to get up at 3:30 a.m. to peddle his papers. Hovering near by with a handy Kleenex, Bailey cackled cheerfully into the TV camera. Her wish was modest enough: clothes for the boys. It was no contest. With a burst of applause, the studio audience of 900 sister sobbers one day last week named Phyllis Adams "Queen...