Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's "warm zone" experiment during Christmas vacation saved only half of official estimates in fuel and electricity costs, and flooding caused by burst pipes during the Christmas break will cost about $50,000, estimated figures released yesterday by a Harvard official show...
Egil: Just let me finish, okay? You tell everyone it's to conserve energy, but the pipes burst, everything floods, you know? Ruins everything--soaks their stereos, turns their [expletive deleted] pot all soggy, you know? [Laughter] You see what I'm driving...
...Chinese press agency. Soon after, it appeared again on the black-bordered front page of Peking's People's Daily; it was broadcast, preceded by solemn music, every half-hour on radio stations throughout China. In Peking, the elevator girl in an office building used by foreign journalists burst into tears when she heard the news. Headlines appeared in newspapers throughout the world, and messages of condolence started pouring into the Chinese capital. In a rare gesture of sympathy and respect, the flags at the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong and at the staid, very British Hong Kong Club flew...
...ladies, watch your eleves," or "That retard should last forever, Marianna-you have a full second." In Tharp time, a second is an eternity. Her dancers are given a lot to do in the space of a beat. In one seemingly continuous motion, swaying hips slink into wiggles that burst into furious pirouettes, then stop on a dime and reverse directions. It is as if Tharp worked to encapsulate all of movement in one lightning-speed action. Audiences are dazzled, dancers left breathless...
...long ago he was "a very ambitious, aggressive, high-strung Harvard graduate," a former president of Harvard Student Agencies and a co-founder of a company that was expanding like a supernova. Before Tobias could blink, he had $400,000 worth of stock options. And when the bubble inevitably burst, reducing his paper holdings to nothing, he was standing back, watching the whole thing from a healthy distance, slightly cynical and slightly wise. Naturally, he wrote a book about...