Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force rebuttal. But the Air Force refused to rise to the bait, and notified the Army; the Army ordered the Pearson copy confiscated. Then Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker began padding around Capitol Hill in person picking up other copies from Alabama Congressmen. Back at Redstone, Army MPs burst into Nickerson's ante-bellum (1817) home, searched it from attic to basement, refused to let anybody in or out for 24 hours, and the Nickerson case...
...varsity hockey team drew up to the door of the Broadmoor Hotel last Wednesday, a group of bogus Indians in headdresses and war paint burst out of the hotel and started to yell and beat their tom toms in greeting to the Crimson's bus. The queen of the tournament with some of her royal court of Colorado College girls followed the Indians and began passing out cowboy hats and candy to the new arrivals. Thus, with the customary hoop and holler, another hockey team was suitably welcomed to the official NCAA hockey tournament...
Shoot If You Must. In Kingman, Ariz., when gun-waving Convict Charles Turner burst into an Episcopal parsonage one jump ahead of a sheriff's posse, 82-year-old Miss Louise Freeland ordered him to drop the gun, took him by the arm and marched him outside to the waiting officers, explained: "I didn't want to see him shot. He probably would have bloodied up my favorite chair...
...public, stringy Author Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, was about to sup one evening with his true love, mousy Joy Stewart, 25, in his bohemian quarters in London's West End. Without warning, the door of the book-glutted flat was suddenly flung open and in burst Joy's enraged father. "Aha, Wilson! The game is up!" roared Accountant John Stewart, 58, brandishing a horsewhip. Beside Father Stewart stood his wife, bearing a sturdy umbrella, plus Joy's younger sister and brother. Confronting the steamed-up Stewarts, Colin Wilson had good reason to blanch: not 15 miles...
Earp, who used a ruse and one burst of buckshot to disarm all 30 ruffians, symbolizes not only the gunfighting marshals who tamed the wild frontier but a pack of horse operas that thunder in growing numbers down the channels of TV. The three networks like this season's 16 Western series so well that they have already scheduled twelve more for next fall-the biggest visible trend for the new season-and independents are hopefully breaking in 50 other contenders. Among the forthcoming shows: CBS's Have Gun, Will Travel, ABC's The Texan, The Californians...