Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cordova's interception late in the first quarter set up Harvard's only points of the half, as the Crimson took the turnover and, aided by Granger's 40-yd. burst up the middle, eventually had to settle for a 23-yd. field goal by Gary Bosnic...
...take his place among the Popes buried in the crypt of St. Peter's, to lie between his two namesakes, John XXIII and Paul VI. As the plain cypress coffin was borne through the portals of the great basilica, the huge, tearful crowd standing in the rainswept square burst into applause. At the Requiem Mass that preceded the burial, it rained intermittently. As if to counteract the rain clouds, in his funeral address 85-year-old Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri compared Pope John Paul to "a meteor that unexpectedly lights up the heavens and then disappears, leaving us amazed...
...exhibit concentrates on the gestual element of abstract expressionism. Hans Hoffman's "Blue Rapsody", not one of his better efforts, dominates one wall of the gallery and features fire-work burst of paint. Hoffman who was probably more influential as a teacher than as a painter during his lifetime, generally filled his canvass with intense, vibrant color...
...best show in town came primary day, when a largely-unheralded question on the ballot burst into national attention and sent liberals scurrying for their fiscal integrity cliches. Proposition 13, the tax revolt, the great middle class reaction. And there on the tube was old Go-with-the-flow Jerry Brown himself doing the best broken field running and backtracking since Gale Sayers hung up the cleats. Politicians by the truckload began making the pilgrimage to the shrine of Sir Howard Jarvis, slayer of the mighty dragon of Big Government...
...scared the living hell out of all but the most maniacal "science marches on" people. The world had already seen enough carnage during the Big One; suddenly this omnipotent man-made monster appeared--a god of death that could vaporize entire cities in one nightmarish burst. Thirty years ago no consensus of feelings about The Bomb existed, but one thing was certain--everyone had a lot of respect, and fear, for nuclear technology. In some ways, that ominous and justifiably paranoid feeling remains in America, but for all practical purposes it has disappeared as nuclear devices--warlike and domestic--become...