Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...command post in Sullivan's second-floor office. The Marine guards, clad in flak jackets and under instructions from Sullivan to refrain from firing back with their shotguns, lay down a cloud of tear gas. Attackers, surging against the locked gate like a human battering ram, burst into the compound. Others scaled the embassy's 12-ft. brick walls. From their posts, the Marines appealed over walkie-talkies to Sullivan (code-named "Cowboy") for permission to use their shotguns. His instructions: "If you need to protect yourselves, you may fire. If you can arrange to surrender...
...squad of invaders crashed into the embassy commissary and disarmed three Marine guards. Sergeant Kenneth Kraus, 22, was wounded in the forehead and eyes by pellets from his own shotgun, which had been taken by one of the leftists. At that, Kraus was lucky. "When they burst in, one of our Iranian employees stepped in front of me," said Kraus from his hospital bed. "He took a machine gun bullet in the chest. I guess he was hurt pretty...
...around the compound. The Marines among them, who had obeyed Sullivan's order to surrender, were kicked and beaten. Inside the embassy, about 70 staffers and a few other people sought refuge in a corridor outside Sullivan's office while Marines covered their retreat. When the guerrillas burst into the embassy, the group fled to the building's east wing, where the communications equipment was housed. While some of the staffers crowded into the locked communications room, a dozen employees hastily shoved classified papers into burn bags that were thrown into an incinerator. A radio operator used...
Harvard, whose unblemished dual meet record now stands at 11-0, reeled off victories in the meet's first nine events to burst out to a 60-19 lead before showing some mercy in the later races...
...burst pipe on the north side of Holyoke Center created a "serious situation" there until normal heating resumed on Tuesday, Joyce said...