Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occurs only once every 360 years at any one place on the earth's surface, and the eastern U. S. can't expect another one in this century. "So we recommend that any one within comminuting distance of Nantucket or Norfolk. Virginia, make it," Pasachoff said, in a burst of enthusiasm that is typical of the spacemen who populate Observatory Hill. "Don't settle for 98 per cent...
...grew to be Time's burst of dawn...
...doubts, however, that Expo will open on schedule. Pandemonium also prevailed before the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, practically up to the hour that the flame was rekindled. Then, in a final frenetic burst of activity that the Japanese refer to as a kamikaze construction charge, the workers finished everything down to the last doorknob. The same is expected at Expo...
...distinguished gentleman was working busily in his chancellery office when the door burst open and a throng of German revelers rushed in. The Karneval celebrators planted the Prince of Fools' plumed cap on his head, dangled three Orders of Fools around his neck, cajoled him into singing some spirited songs and downing a glass of champagne while three comely ladies planted kisses on his head. When the festivities were over and the gang departed, it was back to business as usual for German Chancellor Willy Brandt...
...STAR, after burning brightly for 15 years, finally burst like a supernova in the turbulence of the Cultural Revolution. As events began to heat up in mid 1966, Lin Piao called T'ao to Peking. There, as Lin's trusted comrade from the Fourth Field Army, T'ao became the number four man in China...