Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the riot police tore into the students. At one point they used a giant crane to pull down a 35 ft. "Fighting Spirit Tower" that had been erected by the rebels. The tower toppled in a burst of flames, carrying a handful of students and a cache of fire bombs with it. At least two of the demonstrators were hideously burned. In the face of the riot squads, the farmers withdrew; next day their land was leveled by bulldozers. The final toll: three policemen dead, 159 police and students injured. The outlook for future demonstrations, including...
CROSS COUNTRY--After two consecutive undefeated seasons, the bubble burst for coach Bill McCurdy and his long-distance runners last season. Injuries and bad luck followed a squad that McCurdy felt had the potential to be his best ever--which is saying quite a bit for a man who carries winning percentage of over .700 through 20 seasons as head coach...
Thirteen years have passed since Alan Sillitoe burst forth, in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, as one of the angriest of Britain's Angry Young Men. If he is still angry, it may be because of his relative lack of progress in more man a decade of hard work. In all he has produced six novels, three collections of short stories, three volumes of poetry, a travelogue on Russia, a play and a children's tale, but the reviews have generally been halfhearted...
...program remains the enthusiasm with which most Americans abide it?especially the working men and women who are expected to toil under its restrictions. The President's freeze on wages, in effect, is a sacrifice demanded of each of them. After an initial burst of optimism over the President's speech, laboring Americans?including millions who do not belong to unions?were be ginning to realize that his plan placed limits on their livelihood such as have not been dreamed of for a generation...
...following night, masked men burst into a Catholic home in Belfast's Ballymurphy area where two British troopers, on leave from Germany, sat watching television with relatives. The intruders opened fire, wounding the two Britons as well as a 17-year-old boy. Earlier that day, masked gunmen tried unsuccessfully to bomb the Belfast headquarters of the ruling Unionist Party...