Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...custom to warn his students well in advance of the hour exam that they were in for a "toughie." As the day approached, he would start hinting at some of the incredibly intricate questions students should prepare for, and with one lecture to go he would--in a burst of charity--pass out a list of relevant items. The actual exam then consisted of a single question, typically "'The Eighteenth Century began in 1669.' Discuss...
...feeling that the Beatles were treading water, that they were not uncovering any fresh musical resources, that they were not making any further additions to the existing stock of their achievement. Instead, that album represented a consolidation, a wrapping up of all the Beatles' loose ends in a last burst of splendid careful craftsmanship...
...cold first minute, Dover dropped in the first of many ballet-like layups for a 2-0 lead. Nine minutes later, the Crimson led by only three, 20-17. Harrison then inserted Gustafson, the team's sixth man, into the lineup, and the 6-3 letterman sparked a burst which stretched the advantage to 10 points in less than two minutes...
...created when gamma rays from an exploding weapon strike electrons in the surrounding air, causing them to move rapidly away from the center of the burst. Because of the shape of the warhead, the irregularity of the atmosphere or the proximity of the explosion to the earth, the pattern of the outward-speeding electrons is seldom symmetrical; the overall effect is similar to that caused by a flow of accelerating electrons in only one direction...
Romance Lost. The department raised six major objections to the merger, most notably that the. ICC had not fully considered the anti-competitive aspects of the consolidation. Last week's unanimous court decision rejected all those objections. In a somewhat lyrical burst of prose, Federal Appeals Judge Charles Fahy took the occasion to lament: "The romance of railroad building is all but lost in the welter of data before us. The merger will bring about changes in vast enterprises that took over from the pony express, the stagecoach and the covered wagon...