Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near by, under armed guard, was a notorious anarchist she had interviewed in prison and deeply admired, Andreas Baader, then 27 and serving time for the 1968 fire-bombing of two Frankfurt department stores. Baader had won permission from prison authorities to study at the library. Suddenly three people burst into the library and sprayed the room with bullets and tear gas. The escape plan worked. Baader and Meinhof, now his accomplice in rebellion, leaped out a window...
Much of the first burst of criticism came from special-interest groups, but many of their gripes were legitimate. Foreign automakers, for example, were frightened that their cars might not qualify for the rebates on fuel-efficient vehicles. Actually, they probably wilL; but rebates on foreign cars are certain to provoke the wrath of the United Auto Workers...
...measurement stems from the whirlwind burst of activity by Franklin D. Roosevelt at the beginning of his first term in 1933. It has always been arbitrary and somewhat unfair to later Presidents,* as F.D.R. faced a calamitous economic crisis unlike anything that confronted his successors...
...tradition by pressing charges and demanding a rare public trial. Feminists promptly took up Claudia's case and Attorney Tina Lagostena Bassi agreed to represent her. Said Claudia: "Le femministe, they're the ones who have given me the strength to fight." When the trial opened, Claudia burst into tears at the sight of the seven sullen youths in the dock. She testified that she had received threats warning her not to press the case. Five days later, she was found lying semiconscious by a roadside on the outskirts of Rome. She told police she had been abducted...
...bomb that ever burst...