Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until Joe Colombo burst into headlines more than a year ago, the pattern of silence had never been broken. In an America now angrily aware of the Cosa Nostra, Colombo wanted to return to the omerta of turn-of-the-century Little Italys, where Mafia was a whispered word and bosses were not bad gered by grand juries, tax investigators and wiretaps. To accomplish his goal, Colombo tapped deepseated, legitimate grievances among Italian Americans and ? shocking editorial writers and Mob capos alike?jumped into press conferences and picket lines. He sought to make Cosa Nostra private once more...
...truck tires (as vividly depicted in John Huston's 1961 film. The Misfits). Some were riddled with shotgun pellets and dragged aboard trucks half dead, others had their nostrils tied with baling wire, their legs broken, their eyes gouged out. Foals were left without mothers, who burst their lungs in futile attempts to escape mechanized pursuers. Some ranchers, resentful that wild horses compete with livestock for scarce food and water in arid regions, dope water holes, or simply ride out into the hills and blow the mustangs' heads off. "Sunday mustangers" use weekends to rope and ride down...
...suddenly jumped over the barrier into the ring. I shouted to him to stop. I don't know what he thought he could do." What he could do was get into the act -with a balloon in his mouth and another in his hand for the man to burst. "That knife thrower must have got a lot of publicity," said Richard. He wasn't the only...
...refugee camp at Patrapole on the West Bengal-East Pakistan border, a 16-year-old Bengali girl recalled how she and her parents were in bed "when we heard the tread of feet outside. The door burst open and several soldiers entered. They pointed their bayonets at the three of us and before my eyes killed my mother and father-battering them to death with the butts of their rifles. They flung me on the floor, and three of them raped me." Another teen-age girl in a Tripura camp told how she was raped by 13 West Pakistani soldiers...
WHEN the Great Proletarian Revolution burst over Communist China, Peking recalled all but one of its 42 ambassadors. The lone exception was Huang Hua, then Peking's man in Cairo. His dedication to Communism and his diplomatic acumen in directing China's relations with all of Africa and the Middle East had obviously earned the confidence and respect of China's leaders, even in a period when they were not inclined to trust many people...