Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wild Card. Craig's aim is to compel London to reinstate Stormont and redraft a constitution ensuring Protestant control. "We are going to endeavor by all nonviolent means to make the British initiative unworkable," he declared last week in an interview with TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark. "We can burst the government." As a first step, Craig plans a rent strike by Protestant tenants of government-owned homes, and mass Protestant refusal to pay property taxes and utility bills. He is also considering the creation of an Ulster "provisional government"-a sort of government-in-exile-in-residence...
...that people will settle for small, light electric putt-putts before they choke on their own exhaust, but not likely. In Los Angeles there is just no replacement for that mammoth steel hunk, that roaring brute car that shrinks the land, expands your reach with churning heady acceleration, burst of speed, smell of rubber, and sends you floating dangerously at dizzy speeds, free and loose and careless, across the land. ·: Timothy Tyler
...news, revitalizing his erratic reputation with a performance of power and poignance as the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone. Yet superb as he is, Brando is merely reclaiming a position already staked out. In some ways more exciting are the clutch of little-known younger performers who burst forth in the film. Of these, none is more compelling than a short, brooding coil of tension named Al Pacino...
...headline declares that Herrnstein was "baited," the first paragraph that he was "intercepted," and "noisily pursued," the second that he regarded whatever had happened as "intense personal harrassment," and the fourth that he was "confronted" after "about 25 people simultaneously burst through" the doors of the lecture room. The fifth paragraph discloses that Herrnstein "strode grimfaced" through a crowd and that "a brief scuffle occurred between Herrnstein and an unidentified SDS member," the sixth that he and a policeman walked to William James Hall while SDS and UAG "continued to shower him with questions...
...battery of fluorescent kitchen lights, there is this terrible sense of isolation, of walls closing in, of being trapped. It doesn't compute. Something in her calculations is wrong. She stands there, with a sense of being too late, passed by, stuck-but she doesn't burst into tears. The days of weeping are over. In spite of the desolation she feels, she knows that she is not alone; she has company and they are legion. There is enormous comfort in knowing that. And knowing that is one of the big changes in her life...