Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overcoming blustery winds, choppy conditions, and first-race jitters, the Radcliffe crew burst into the Spring rowing season Saturday, outclassing an inexperienced Syracuse squad in both four-and eight-oared competition on the Charles River Basin...
...MORE MUNDANE level, a shift in the Administration's batting order also sapped Union strength. R. Victor Jones, former lead-off man as dean of the GSAS, had helped fuel the initial burst of Union activity last year after an inept performance before a crowd of graduate students...
...lack of comedy hurts most. Chekov's plays burst with heartbreaking comedy, the comedy of a dying class whose suffering and humanity are not less because it deserves to die. Even the stage directions are comic. "There is also a map of Africa on the wall, obviously of no use to anybody." That map should fairly exude incongruity, and when Dr. Astrov, searching desperately for something to say, observes that it's probably roasting in Africa right now, we ought to laugh at the statement's inappropriateness at the same time that we recognize his desperation. In the Boston...
...Proell burst on the Alpine scene in 1969: a skinny, blonde 15-year-old with freckles, who was the youngest member of Austria's eight-girl national skiing team. Two years later, after packing another 40 pounds on her 5 ft. 6 in. frame (she now weighs a chunky 150), she won her first World...
Then why had the crisis burst? The simplest and most ominous explanation seems to be that currency speculation has developed a self-sustaining momentum independent of economic logic. The crude fact is that speculators who have bet against the dollar since 1971 have profited, while people and companies that could have speculated but held dollars instead have been hurt by two declines in the dollar's value. Many "speculators" are bankers and corporate treasurers who are anxious to keep their overseas holdings in safe currencies. There also is evidence that Middle East oil sheiks, who are paid...