Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRECISELY. The real Elliott Gould was elsewhere that evening, but the two anxious urbanites were going through just the sort of encounter that Gould has faced in the burst of films ?from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice to this summer's Getting Straight and Move?that have raised him to stardom in less than a year. There were even elements of this mood in M*A*S*H, the battlefront comedy that has become the most talked-about movie of 1970. Gould always seems to be caught up in social ?and sexual?tension. He embodies an inner need...
...room to bogey three of the last four holes and putt out at the 18th a clear two-stroke winner. Cool and self-contained all week long, he was suddenly seized by the enormity of his achievement. Looking up at his pregnant wife Cathy waiting for him, he suddenly burst into tears. "She just waved and that was enough." he said. "I was gone. I told my caddie to bring me a towel...
...increase in Pakistan and India, moving into Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. A year later it struck the Iranian town of Rasht on the South Shore of the Caspian Sea. From there, it jumped to Astrakhan, a Soviet city of 500,000. Now it has burst out in two more areas: Alexandria and Port Said and-after a visit by the Soviet fleet to the two Egyptian cities-the Soviet Black Sea port of Odessa...
...first month of the U.S. occupation, Tojo and his wife lived undisturbed in their Tokyo home. But one day in mid-September a group of foreign correspondents burst into his home unexpectedly. At the sight of the newsmen, who were dressed in Army uniforms, Tojo immediately told his wife to flee out the back door. After exhaling another Hai, she did. Then Tojo, perhaps to save his honor, tried to commit suicide with a revolver but he only managed to wound himself. Mrs. Tojo, disobeying the command of her husband for the first time in her life, crept back...
...Some dissenters demanded that the enemy be warned; critics of this course objected that Allied prisoners might be placed in the target area. Still others proposed demonstrations of various kinds-perhaps before an international inspection group, or as Physicist Edward Teller seems to have suggested offhandedly, a highly visible burst right on the Emperor's front porch, in Tokyo...