Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Barker ran his best race of the year, and led until the last 100 yards of the 3.3-mile course, when Quirk burst past him in a sprinting finish. Dartmouth's Tom Shiland came in third, even though three Harvard runners-Marshall Jones, Mark Connolly, and Tom New-made strong final rushes and almost caught him. The time interval between Quirk and New was only 24 seconds...
...Transvaal, stronghold of the most intransigent white supremacists, a long-simmering quarrel between Vorster and the archreactionaries has burst into the open. Super-Segregationist Dr. Albert Hertzog, 70, expelled from the party last month, will formally launch a new political union this week-the Christian National Party-to challenge the Nationalists. For nearly 40 years, Hertzog has worked for apartheid. As he told 2,000 yelling, stamping followers in Pretoria, the Transvaal capital: "Die stryd duur voort"-the fight goes on. "I was expelled," he said, "not because I deviated from party principles but because I wanted to maintain...
...show was not all Foster however, Teammate Eric Crone drove Harvard 42 yards for its first touchdown a seven-yard burst by Ted DeMars and hit Demars with a beautiful pass for an 86-yard play, the Crimson's fourth score...
McHarg's new book is partly a burst of rage at the lavalike flow of U.S. cities into the countryside, where city dwellers yearning for nature destroy it in the process. McHarg blames the lack of planning on the arrogance of both capitalism and Christianity, cries that man is poisoning the very biosphere that sustains him and calls for a new ecological religion based on living in harmony with nature rather than on conquering...
Within minutes 5,000 citizens were converging on city hall, wielding sticks, hoes and shovels. They burst into Sal-to's second-floor office and unceremoniously tossed the new "mayor," the Undersecretary and Top Cop Aller out of a window. Aller wound up in a flower bed. Figueroa's defenestrated deputies fled to a nearby police station and finally pledged that Salto would remain mayor after all. Half the city's people danced in the streets until 3 a.m., celebrating their victory...