Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Machine-Gun Burst. Sporkin sees the violations as "a blight on our great economic system. We've got to stop it." He came by his love of justice from his father, a Philadelphia judge. After honing his business instincts by becoming a C.P.A. and a lawyer, Sporkin joined the SEC in 1962, quickly gaining a reputation as a fierce investigator. When the job of top cop came open, Sporkin was a natural for it. But neither his superiors nor his wife nor three children have ever been able to make him look like a businessman-or a lawyer either...
...were able to retain most of our usual department headings, with some obvious omissions (Television, Cinema). Apart from these, the Law section was left out because law and lawyers had burst the bounds of the legal profession and were making news in all the great political events of the moment...
...infidelity less easy to take than he had imagined. He responds with a sort of obsessive nagging that fails to mask a mounting rage. It could not be better calculated to drive her still farther from him. The result, finally, is separation, new marriages and, in a sudden burst of startling savagery, a beating of his former mate that is so severe that he is given a jail term...
Under a searing African sun last July, Eritrean rebels burst into a U.S. naval radio station near Asmara, Ethiopia, and seized Steven Campbell, 27, a civilian technician, and another American, James Harrell, 41. The kidnapers' apparent motives: extort ransom from the U.S. and end American aid to Ethiopia. They dragged both men across 100 miles of desert in twelve days to a tent outpost. There the guerrillas held them virtually incommunicado on a diet of rice and canned vegetables...
...quiet day in Beirut when only 30 people are killed. Among last week's victims: moderate Maronite Leader Raymond Edde, 63, who was wounded by gunmen chasing his car, and Linda Atrash, 55, sister of Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt, who was slain when assassins seeking relatives of Jumblatt burst into her apartment...