Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When D.T.H. opened its five-week New York season at Broadway's Uris Theater last week, the audience saw a troupe whose accomplishments belie its youth: the average age is 20. Tall torsos, high arms and limbs stretched toward infinity-the two dozen young dancers burst with vitality. "It's a marriage of the nobility of the Watusi with the aristocracy of Louis XIV," says Shook...
...brainwashed. That was also why-three months after her kidnaping-she had rescued the Harrises from a melee after a botched shoplifting venture at a Los Angeles sporting-goods store. She had leaned out of the window of the group's van and sprayed the building with a burst of shots from an automatic and a semi-automatic weapon. "If I had not done it and if they had been able to get away," said Patty, "they would have killed...
...means the best year for an expansion-minded periodical. By January the Nixon/Ford/Arthur Burns recession had burst out full-blown and was still hanging around with lots of its old vigor in December. Even such a sound, conservative, well-connected publication as National Review ran in the red in 1975. The only successful new entrant in the periodical market was the glossy, gossipy, photo-filled People magazine, backed by Time, Inc. Money was tight...
Kodama, who turns 65 next week and whose origins in northern Japan are obscure, first burst upon the public consciousness as a prewar activist in right-wing causes. He has been jailed three times for a total of seven years. He was imprisoned by the Japanese for involvement in the 1936 assassination of former Premier Makoto Saito and again by the Americans as a Class-A war-crimes suspect (he was later released without trial). He became wealthy during World War II by supplying the Japanese navy and, by his account, "bringing home truckloads of diamonds and platinum" from territories...
...addition, damages incurred when pipes burst and flooded University buildings before and during the Christmas break, diminishing the savings by another $50,000 Leahy said...