Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Into this delicate if hostile world, man has burst as a stranger. "There is a new urgency for knowledge of the tundra," says Zoologist Frank Pitelka of Berkeley. "We now have a Texas-size threat to a land doubtfully able to take it." In the past two years, however, the major oil companies have compiled an excellent record. They have hired Arctic ecologists to help minimize the effects of their presence, even going so far as to develop hardy strains of grass to protect the tundra. Helicopters move whole drilling rigs to avoid ripping up the topsoil. Three companies have...
They come at you in a burst, a volley. The moment you dodge the first, you've got to start thinking about the second. And the third. And the fourth. It's like an obstacle course. You're evading all the time. The whole thing is over in about two minutes. But into those two minutes you seem to compress your whole life...
...than his 22 years, lives at the Protestant edge of the "peace line." Ball and his wife Maureen, 20, moved into his three-story brick house at No.78 Percy Street after last summer's riots - when it be came available rather suddenly. A gang of Protestant toughs had burst in and given the Catholic family that lived there half an hour to clear...
...course, the U.S. is by no means the only country that has been surprised by the Green Revolution. As Overseas Development Corporation Vice President Dr. Clifton Wharton noted in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, it "has burst with such suddenness that it has caught many unawares." Long-range planning, he wrote, is urgently needed. "Perhaps in this way we can ensure that what we are providing becomes a cornucopia, not a Pandora's box." That is a challenge-and a promise-that the world can ill afford to ignore...
When Poems, Auden's first book, burst like a rocket upon the literary scene in 1930, it showed the obvious influence of T.S. Eliot. Nor is Yeats mentioned, though some later Auden lyrics - including "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" - bear structural resemblances to his work...