Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down to the Sea. Oklahoma's Will Rogers once cracked: "When the Arkansas, Red River, Salt Fork, Verdigris, Caney, Cat Creek, Possum Creek, Dog Creek and Skunk Branch all are up after a rain, we got more seacoast than Australia." Despite its tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated...
...proceedings against their clients in Chicago and repeatedly demanded the right to challenge or cross-examine witnesses. Ichord turned them down every time on grounds that "this is a legislative proceeding. This is not a court of law." Between gavel whacks, Ichord warned: "If you're going to burst out with any more emotional outbursts, please leave the room." Hoffman asked to be excused because he felt on the brink of an emotional outburst, then shouted an obscenity as the door closed behind...
...Terry become President, impressed by his promise of reform and a "new politics" for South America's fourth largest nation. Last week they brusquely reversed that judgment on the man who was once praised as Peru's Kennedyesque "architect of hope." Awakened, as he slept, by a burst of machine-gun fire, Belaúnde looked out of his window to find tanks outside the Presidential Palace in Lima. Some 50 Peruvian Rangers stormed into the palace and took Belaúnde into custody. Onlookers gathered as he was escorted out of the palace. "How do you like...
...accomplishments. Identifying their problems with his own, Wilson observed that "we have gone through a great deal together in defense of everything we stand for." Finally, as London's Times observed, "hamming it unmercifully, but hamming it like an old trouper," he ended on a rousing burst of old-fashioned socialist oratory: "It is the job of every member of this party to join with their government in defending the bastions we have won from those who would seek to drive us out for their own gain. It is no defensive posture for which I ask. I charge...
Detroit's highly-touted Denny McLain finally won a game, but the Tigers' batters stole most of McLain's thunder. It was Northup's 380-foot blast into the right-field stands off reliever Larry Jaster which burst the game open in the third...