Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With a burst into more daring shapes. Stella gave up pinstripes and fired the canvas with new color. At first glance, "Chocorua," named for a New Hampshire mountain, looks like a triangle imposed upon a rectangle, piercing the edge. But on closer scrutiny, this drawing is complex. Wide bands of color outline the shapes, locking the geometrical pieces into a unit...
Picking up speed under the increasing pull of the earth's gravity, Apollo was now rapidly approaching its narrow re-entry slot. To make sure of a precise reentry, Lovell and Haise fired one more brief burst from Aquarius' thrusters. Swigert meanwhile took up his post in the command module pilot's seat. Looking out of the window, he commented: "That earth is whistling in like a high-speed train...
...they cleared the Square, police burst into Massachusetts Avenue businesses, clubbing demonstrators and clientele. Six police entered the Waldorf Cafeteria in pursuit of rioters, beat the rioters to the floor, and dragged them back to the sidewalk. Waldorf customers threw chairs at the police and refused to leave the restaurant. Some administered first aid to two injured demonstrators...
...three Apollo 13 astronauts gained a crucial 10-hour margin of oxygen, water, and electrical power with a short burst of rocket fire last night...
...path of some ants that have set up supply lines to a smashed sack of sugar. "The ants found themselves facing a new situation," Grass wrote, "but, undismayed by the detour, soon built a new highway round the doubled-up Matzerath, for the sugar that trickled out of the burst sack had lost none of its sweetness while Marshal Rokossovski was occupying the city of Danzig...