Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes in the egg stage. When it is first launched on the world, usually in fecal matter, an egg cannot survive unless it happens to be swallowed by an animal that can serve as intermediate host. Most eggs perish, but the survivors that find a home spring into a burst of frantic activity. Out of their capsules come hook-armed embryos that claw their way through the intestines of the intermediate host and form cysts in its tissues...
...fashionable, upper-class Episcopal home in Philadelphia, ended in an English Roman Catholic convent, and may be crowned by beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. In The Case of Cornelia Connelly (Pantheon; $3.75), British Roman Catholic Author Juliana Wadham brings back to life a reverberating scandal that burst upon the U.S. and Britain in 1849, when the Catholic Church was struggling to re-establish itself in England...
...missiles and missile launchers are racking up a business of $10 million a year. *Where Kin Tartars, defending the city against the rampaging Mongols, used both fire-powder bombs and "flying fire spears" which "burst forward with a sudden flame to a distance of ten paces and upward so that no one durst approach them...
Havana's Radio Reloj-Radio Clock-chattered away one afternoon last week with news and commercials, then gave the time of day: 3:30. A pause followed-for the excellent reason that three young men had burst into the studio waving guns. One of them pointed a pistol at the announcer's head, and the trembling announcer broadcast what he was ordered to say: "Batista is dead!" At the Presidential Palace, fellow rebels stormed in to make the words come true, were soon within one flight of stairs of succeeding...
...tried last week was brutally simple-and almost sure suicide. About 3:25 p.m., a red truck sputtered to a stop in front of the Presidential Palace. The driver inspected the engine, walked to the tail gate. "Now," he shouted, and 21 university students and political opponents of Batista burst out, firing rifles and machine guns. They were soon in the palace door and up the staircases on either side to the second floor and Batista's office. One of them flung a hand grenade at the door...