Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shabby Relic. At a press conference, Amin admitted only that six officers had been killed in a short-lived uprising that had been staged by dissident tribesmen of the army's Tiger battalion. After that, he claimed, one man had been killed and another wounded when tribesmen "burst into" the military police headquarters in the capital. The clear impression was that Amin was building pretexts for staffing both the government and his Soviet-equipped armed forces largely with members of his own small Moslem tribe, the Kakwa...
...year-old Jack stood 5 ft. 10 in., weighed 165 pounds, and when he eagled the 18th hole at Scioto for a 69, it was clear that a golfing prodigy had burst on the scene. At age 20 he reached the island green on the 50-yard seventeenth at Cherry Hills with a drive and a seven-iron...
...still marred in some areas by confusion and unprofessionalism; the staff work was sometimes shoddy and key memos poorly prepared. Dozens of top jobs remained unfilled; the Agriculture Department has no deputy secretary, no general counsel and none of its six allotted assistant secretaries. But last week amid a burst of activity, Carter was coming to grips with matters of substance-and with uneven results...
...Rochelle, N.Y., a hulking 250-lb. furniture mover and Nazi cultist named Frederick W. Cowan, 33. returned to his job after a two-week suspension and exploded in a St. Valentine's Day massacre. Packing five guns, he burst into his moving company's warehouse, shot to death four co-workers and a policeman, wounded five other people, then put one of his guns to his head and blew his brains...
...world glitters these days with opportunities to forget the rigors of the winter in a bout of self-indulgence. The theater, opera and ballet seasons are in full swing. Stores are about to burst forth with displays of brightly colored dresses and lightweight suits foretelling the not-quite-imminent spring. Airlines and travel agencies sing siren songs of palm trees bending in soft Caribbean breezes. And all these delights can be savored without dipping into the cash that must be hoarded to pay those monstrous winter fuel bills. Just flash a few rectangles of hard plastic embossed with cabalistic numbers...