Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question had just been asked: Did he predict failure for the Jerusalem talks? As Jordan's King Hussein was about to answer, a door to his office in Amman's Basman Palace flew open and Abdul Hamid Sharaf, Chief of the Royal Court, burst in with a message. Scanning the note that had been handed to him, the King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation...
...friend Shecky Green, but this week, it's for a good reason. Shecky and I were vacationing together last week (the Concord was never so supersonic...), and one night in the dining hall, as the waiter was bringing around those gorgeous little kreplachs, Shecky mounted the table and spontaneously burst into a series of his best jokes ever. Then, faster than you could say, "My mother-in-law is so annoying that..," he'd launched into an evocative Totie Fields imitation, and the dining room crowd--all of whom had long since stopped eating--either sat spellbound or rolled...
Flight 216 lifted off the runway into the rainy, foggy night and then banked left. Exactly one minute later, the plane thudded to the ground and burst into flames. The bodies of all 29 persons aboard were strewn like jackstraws around the twisted fuselage. They included 14 members of the Purple Aces, Coach Watson, the assistant director of athletics and two student managers...
...Venoil heaved its bulbous bow into the Venpet's side, leaving a gash 45 ft. deep and 180 ft. long just above the waterline. Both vessels burst into flames. In the Venoil, the fire was luckily confined to the ship's fuel tanks and kept away from its flammable cargo. Even so, flames shot 200 ft. into the air, and the billowing smoke was visible for 15 miles...
...stimulate its economy in order to boost demand for imports. But the concessions were far less significant than American officials wanted. To Robert Strauss, the President's chief trade negotiator, the proposals "fall considerably short of what this Government feels is necessary." Not surprisingly, Ushiba himself, in a burst of frankness, had warned reporters before leaving Japan that his proposals would not satisfy the Americans...