Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what about the latest burst of retirement talk? No one really believes Ali, least of all high-rolling Impresario Don King, the fight's promoter. King's latest grand strategy calls for Ali to trek to Russia, then back to the U.S. for a $50 million Bicentennial extravaganza in Washington...
Then, as city police cars closed off both ends of the block, some agents hurried into the apartment; while others, guns drawn, burst into a few of the neighboring houses to look unsuccessfully for Patty Hearst. In the Harrises' apartment, the FBI found 40 pounds of black explosive powder, three .30-cal., fully automatic carbines, two shotguns, two pistols and a substantial amount of ammunition...
...late morning when four men in their twenties marched into the eight-story building housing the embassy, in the fashionable Salamanca section of Madrid. Carrying pistols, they burst into the embassy on the second floor. Madrid police wisely made no attempt to test the terrorists' threat to kill the three men they had seized as hostages: Ambassador Ghaffar, the press attaché Mohammed Aziti and the consul. The terrorists claimed to belong to a Martyred Abdel Khader Husseini Group, named after a Palestine liberation fighter. The group is thought to be composed of militants from the "rejection front," which...
...sensitive to such protests when considering whether to give MASCO the go-ahead. The residents across the street would not benefit from the housing, but would share the pollution. What if these residents were to rally support in the community against the plant--visible, angry antagonisms that could burst out at the BRA's hearing on the project's building permit and jeopardize the plant's neutral status in city hall, turning the political process against...
Struggling out of their worst slump since the Depression, the nation's automakers are entering the new model year with a traditional burst of promotional ballyhoo and high hopes of recovery. Over the next few weeks, Ford, General Motors, Chrysler and American Motors will officially introduce the 1976 models now rolling off their assembly lines. Generally, the new cars will cost more than the '75s and show only the barest styling changes. But Detroit is gambling that its main selling point for '76−improved fuel economy−will bring enough buyers back to the showrooms...