Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burst of Laughter...
McCord conceded under questioning from committee co-chairman Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.) that he had never had direct contact with Mitchell, Magruder or Dean in connection with the wiretap plan. When asked what Mitchell had called him in their campaign contacts, McCord drew a burst of laughter by saying, "Before or after June...
...Canadian Olympic Squad repeatedly burst through Harvard's struggling defense to down the Crimson 9-6 in the first match Friday. The Crimson countered with an 8-6 win in the second game, but only because the Canadians played their second string...
...James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. A certain violence, even a spiritual terrorism, has often characterized Jesuit rhetoric. The young hero of Portrait, Stephen Dedalus, is reduced to horror by the sermon on hell ("A wave of fire swept through his body ... flames burst forth from his skull"), but after he has gone to confession, "the past was past...
BUOYED by a rising tide of prosperity, consumers have gone on a damn-the-expense, damn-the-high-cost-of-living buying spree. The sustained burst of personal spending, especially in the first three months of 1973, is propelling retail sales and corporate profits to new peaks. It is also raising nightmarish prospects for Administration policymakers charged with the tricky task of keeping the economy moving briskly while avoiding a destructive price spiral. Their efforts to check inflation could well prove futile unless the blistering pace of consumer buying is somehow slowed in the months ahead...