Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beer can. The Jax beer brewery is right here in the Quarter on the banks of the Mississippi River. Good beer that Jax. And cheap: only thirty cents in most bars. People drink it all the time. Last night I had a dream that the daily afternoon cloud burst happened to be Jax beer this time around. It was a little sticker than the usual rain, but no one in New Orleans was surprised. I can't imagine them ever being surprised...
...imprinted: "If this was napalm, you would be dead." This greeting, planned by a protest group that has offices in the same building, was accompanied by banners and placards taunting her about Viet Nam and hunger. As Pat gamely launched into her speech, seven barefoot girls in black burst into the hall and chanted an antiwar hex on her in crude doggerel...
...Russian Foreign Ministry immediately issued a countercharge, claiming that a Chinese shepherd had sauntered 400 yards into Soviet territory in order to distract border guards while Chinese troops slipped into Russia. When ordered to leave, said the Russians, the Chinese replied with a burst of submachine-gun fire. Moscow mentioned no casualties on either side...
Sailor Suits. Among his latest acquisitions are two Manhattan landmarks -Luchow's, where the schnitzel has been unadorned for decades, and Charles in Greenwich Village, where the menu used to be sensible and the decor genteel. Now Charles has burst into a kind of bordello Byzantine, where a female harpist plucks away and the lighting is too dim to see the food (not that one would want to). So far, mercifully, Ellman has left Luchow's alone...
...custom to warn his students will 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...