Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both of Penn's Adams Cup victories were achieved with the help of an explosive start that got the Quakers out front early, and kept them there. If Harvard could only burst off the start equally fast, Parker thought the Crimson's traditional ability to move on a boat while understroking it could win it the race. And in each case, that is exactly what happened...
DEEP in the timeless Jordanian desert, the three silvery jetcraft glinted like metallic mirages in the afternoon sun, their finned tails emblazoned with the insignia of three famed airlines: TWA. BOAC and Swissair. Then suddenly a huge explosion, then another and another. The planes crumpled, then burst into flame. From the burning wreckage rose columns of black smoke that were visible 25 miles away in Amman, where Arab guerrillas fired their guns in celebration...
...ecumenist long before the word became popular. At Vatican II, he attracted worldwide attention when his speech in support of the council document on religious liberty for all -including atheists-was hailed by the assembled churchmen with a burst of forbidden applause. Then, typically, he walked out on the council when it went on too long, claiming that he had more important things to do in Boston. For these reasons-and for many others -Gushing has become perhaps the best known of the American cardinals...
...basis for a fictional analyst's notebook. Portnoy's problem, wrote Bettelheim, was not excessive hatred of a smothering, domineering Jewish mother, but the complete reverse ?excessive love and dependence on her. In these terms, Gould's current life-style is reminiscent of his childhood, and his current burst of show business activity could conceivably be an effort to live up to his mother's expectations...
...California legislature has released a progress report by its Joint Committee on Seismic Safety that includes a stark scenario describing the effect in 1970 of an upheaval as great as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake-an event to be expected every 60 to 100 years. Water mains would burst, elevators stop and power lines topple. At least one of the area's 228 dams and reservoirs would give way. Countless Bay Area buildings would sink into the shifting alluvial soils on which they have carelessly been built; such soil can turn into quicksand during a quake. The entire region...