Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adversaries are not the only ones in prison. There are also those who would finish our Western way of life. This kind of guerrilla activity cannot be fought by military action alone. It requires the will of the people. With popular support, the military could burst the carbuncle of terrorism. But a new military coup designed to restore order would be a mistake...
...scrubbed and routinized fingers dart beneath her suspender straps, pull outward, release in a sudden great smack and ho-ho-ho from Bleagh as she jumps and laughs too, trying not too hard to squirm away. They lie on a bed of faded old nautical charts, maintenance manuals, burst sandbags and spilled sand, burned matchsticks, and unraveled corktips from cigarettes long decomposed that comforted through the nights of '41 and the sudden rush of heart at any glimpse of a light at sea. "You're mad," she whispers. "I'm randy," he smiles and snaps her garter again...
...that way, the authors rigorously suppress untidy complexity. Mrs. Uhnak's novel ends in a hasty melodramatic knitting of loose strands. Maas' reportage resolutely refuses to go beyond Serpico's own viewpoint. Whittemore is worst of all, portraying his heroes without a fleck of imperfection. They burst into pushers' apartments but somehow never violate any constitutional rights. They slay two big-time drug suppliers, but the regrettable bloodletting really happens because other cops fail to back them up properly. They manage to get convictions on more than 90% of the 600 suspects they arrest, with...
GEORGE BUSH, 48, successor to Dole, is an attractive politician who was out of politics (as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) when Watergate burst, but is hurt because he is party chairman now. He might recoup by returning to Texas to run for the governorship...
...Sekler. "Obviously the person who is going to write poetry in the end must first learn grammar, syntax, and orthography." The logic was that if a person was going to create a work of art, he must first learn such principles as color theory. Instead of waiting for a burst of inspiration, the point was to select a problem, work on it methodically, and in the end the creative moment would arrive...