Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them, but along with two births they were attributed to the "life cycle." A boy without a place to sleep lay down in unknown field and was run over the next morning by a tractor. Now no camera crew was present then, or when a girl died of a burst appendix before receiving medical attention, just as no photographer recorded the deaths of Mark Feiger and Richard Savlov, two kids killed at Altamont when a driver trying to find the freeway slammed his car into their campsite. No one saw some guy fall into an unlit, unfenced irrigation ditch near...
...Williams. President Nixon was represented by David and Julie Eisenhower; they escorted Mamie Eisenhower, whose husband signed a bill authorizing such a center 13 years ago. The President's men mingled with their predecessors in the cavernous riverside foyer, which is longer than two football fields. As fireworks burst across the Potomac, an old Kennedy friend observed: "The embers are falling on Arlington Cemetery...
...entry through Parliament before the summer recess, which normally comes in July. He could also wait until October, after the party conferences. But there are disadvantages in delay. By the fall, Labor may well have turned openly against entry, and opposition in the Tory rank-and-file may have burst through the surface...
Measurably Mellowed. The sudden surprising burst of progress established a favorable climate for the summit meeting in Paris this week between France's President Georges Pompidou and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. The breakthrough came on the second evening of the two-day bargaining session in Brussels. The first day had ended poorly. Rippon was adamant in his demands for assurances that Commonwealth sugar-producing countries, such as Jamaica, Mauritius and Fiji, be granted special preferences to sell their commodity to the Common Market. The Six refused. "They tried to hustle us as if we were...
...world that is everywhere else embroiled in war. The film's landscapes-fields of brown and orange, hazy skys often muted by low-hanging clouds-are like Wyeth paintings that have taken on life with a well-nigh imperceptible sigh. Its interiors are like Norman Rockwell covers that have burst forth into an engaging kind of action...