Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vision involves adoration of something transcendental. The gods, which were both transcendental and a figuring forth of man's own greatness, were profoundly involved in heroic action and love. Both were passionate, and both were sources of glory and over-reaching. Passionate action was for the Greek a burst of fire rendering the world; and man's place in it was comprehensible. In battle the warrior might briefly show his back above the element he lived in, and attain the glorious clevation and certainty of divinity...
...realizing now: something, you know, about how the world's freaky, and feed-your-head, and expand-your-mind, and you-too-can-be-creative, and just-get-stoned-enough-and-you'll-be-stoned-all-the-time. (2) In 1963, the year Kennedy died, the Beatles burst on the scene. We thought they were going to be just another rock group, though they would last a little longer and be remembered a bit more often. (3) But someone turned them on to drugs, and they led a global mind-revolution. (4) It was time for Yoko Ono to pack...
...have been a spark or another kind of combustion, Dr. Rocco Petrone, director of the Apollo program, told Congress at week's end. The additional heat would have caused the oxygen to expand, and perhaps build up pressure in the tank to the point where the gas burst out with explosive force...
...Brezhnev junketed around the country in connection with the Lenin celebrations, he enjoyed a sudden burst of publicity that struck many Western diplomats as extremely unusual. Three times in four days Brezhnev appeared prominently-and usually alone-on Soviet television. Nothing like it had been seen in Russia since Khrushchev's days. While Brezhnev spoke in a Kharkov tractor factory, where he awarded the Order of Lenin to the workers, the cameras flashed back and forth from his face to huge portraits of Lenin hanging in the hall. As sustained applause greeted the very mention of his name...
...reasons behind the junta's unwonted burst of benevolence were obvious. This week marks the third anniversary of the coup that overthrew the short-lived government of Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos. More important, the Council of Europe was about to convene in Strasbourg to consider censuring the regime. Last December, Greece resigned from the council to avoid expulsion on charges of violating the European Code on Human Rights. Last week all but two of the council's members voted to condemn the junta on ten specific counts of torturing political prisoners...