Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joyce Haber and her TV producer husband Douglas Cramer. "I go out with actresses," he says, "because I'm not very apt to marry one." Once he even confided: "It's astonishing, you know. These starlets I go out with aren't even sexy." In a burst of envious outrage, Manhattan's Village Voice accused Kissinger of being a secret square posing as a swinger...
Never Again. Incendiary bombs had exploded almost simultaneously in two Manhattan office buildings. One burst in Hurok's New York headquarters, which was immediately engulfed in dense black smoke that killed a young secretary and incapacitated nine others, including Hurok, who was briefly hospitalized and then released. The second was detonated in the office of Columbia Artists, another talent agency, which was luckily almost empty; most of the employees had not yet arrived for work. Within minutes, anonymous callers to the Associated Press and NBC claimed that the bombs had been set to protest "the deaths and imprisonment...
...hopes was that a surge of consumer buying would ignite spending by businessmen and lead to prosperity in 1972. Yet, while shoppers have been spending fairly well for months, businessmen continue to keep a tight grip on their money. Since sustained economic growth is all but impossible without a burst of corporate spending for inventories, modernization and plant expansion, the timid attitude is impeding a stronger, faster recovery. Why are businessmen not spending more-and when will they open...
...damages. Meinhof interviewed him in jail for Konkret and wrote approvingly of his "progressive" act. Two years later, Baader received permission from prison authorities to travel under guard to a Berlin library to do research. There Meinhof was seated at a table, pretending to read. Suddenly, two masked figures burst into the room, overpowered the guards and freed Baader. Under cover of tear-gas grenades and gunfire, they got away, leaving behind two wounded guards and a critically injured librarian...
...back"-but he had not known that the emperor whom he had served so faithfully was now a mere mortal instead of a god. One of Yokoi's first questions to reporters was on a political matter: "Tell me one thing quick: Is Roosevelt dead?" The ex-sergeant burst into tears when told that his mother had died...