Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a freshness too. The blooms of roses, petunias and daisies show through the twilight. Fireflies and children burst from leafy caverns. A look into the barn shows that it stables a red Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Far off, thunderheads pile up over the Missouri River, and then ringers of coolness touch the broad leaves of the linden tree overhead...
...week Beatty arrived in New York to organize the advance screenings of Heaven Can Wait and harass the Paramount sales force with endless queries. It took the elegant Carlyle Hotel two days to determine whether or not he had actually checked into his suite. At one point a maid burst into his room, found Beatty on the telephone and complained: "Nobody has slept in the bed again. I want to know?are you going to stay here tonight?" Finally Beatty sheepishly threw up his hands and announced, "Well, it looks like this hotel has blown my cover...
...Kennedy, you come with us, they wanted to take me away from him ... But I said I'm not leaving ... Dave Powers came running to me at the hospital, crying when he saw me, my legs, my hands were covered with his brains ... When Dave saw this he burst out weeping ... I said I'm not going to leave him, I'm not going to leave him ... I was standing outside in this narrow corridor ... ten minutes later this big policeman brought me a chair...
...believe it undermines the First Amendment. Sudden searches based on warrants disrupt the actual daily production of a paper, thus interfering with its constitutionally designated function of providing the public with the news. Far more important are the decision's ramifications on news gathering itself. When law officials burst in unannounced, their thorough search of the paper's premises poses a serious threat to confidentiality of the news sources. The court's decision might bar a journalist from being able to promise confidentiality to potential sources, thus severely restricting journalists'--and hence the public's--access to information...
...sick wife's medical expenses. He had not practiced, or owned a piano, for four decades. He had not even looked at the music, Liszt's lengthy, difficult Legendes, in more than half a century. Yet when his ringers touched the keys, there came a burst of musical thunder, exploding octaves and a bass of such power and sonority that the Baldwin threatened to shake apart...