Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret that several officers in the U.S. command's secret information-gathering center in Saigon keep Japanese-made "laughing bags" on their desks. The little battery-operated noise boxes emit an 18-second burst of hysterical laughter at the push of a button. Officers have been known to push the button during working hours-quite possibly in response to the latest batch of statistics to arrive from the battlefields or hamlets of Indochina...
...literally shooting at the moon-aiming powerful beams of intense laser light at the corner reflectors left by the Apollo astronauts near their lunar landing sites. Astronomical telescopes concentrate the beams and pick up their reflection from the moon. By precisely clocking the round-trip time of each short burst of light-about 2½ seconds-scientists have been able to measure the distance between earth and moon to within six inches or less. They are gathering invaluable data on such puzzles as the drift of continents, the earth's polar wobble and possible changes in the force...
...holds an estimated 55% of the market, is expected to start this month by eliminating enzymes from Tide, the nation's bestselling detergent. (The company has no plans for changing ingredients in Biz, its enzyme pre-soak.) Colgate will gradually sift out enzymes from its detergents-Ajax, Punch, Burst, Cold Power-and possibly from Axion, the leading pre-soak. Lever will replace the enzymes in its Drive detergent with sodium perborate, a bleach...
...agricultural ministers of the European Common Market were quietly discussing farm policies when some 60 irate Belgian farmers, accompanied by three cows, burst into the room, shouting: "Down with the Common Market! We need money to live!" While the nervous cows mucked up the floor, the farmers presented their demands to EEC Commission Vice President Sicco Mansholt-a 6% increase in the price of dairy products and a tax on imported fats and oils. Mansholt took it all with aplomb. "This is an agricultural ministers' meeting," he said. "These things are to be expected...
...many of the potential jurors are nervous about the prospect of becoming involved in a notorious trial, Mulvey reassures them that "I'll be right there sitting beside you just in case anyone gets out of line." Nevertheless, on occasion, women jurors have burst into floods of tears at the first glance from Charles Garry, Seale's lawyer...