Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...host club responded with a three-goal burst only to see McCall and Andy Gellis bring Harvard within one at the close of the first quarter...
...resident producer of the National Ballet of Canada, dominated ballet with sheer elegance. His style was pure and restrained, his partnering impeccable. If anything his reputation has increased since his retirement. He has an enormous following and will dance again this summer at A.B.T. When Rudolf Nureyev burst upon the West in 1961, he brought back some of the Nijinsky excitement. Nureyev has always had Tartar energy and impact; now 37, he has become a dancer of protean range...
...fact, the fun in the sun ended rather abruptly, as the visitors showered second-half goaltender Michelson with a three-goal scoring burst in the first two and one half minutes of play, to gain a 9-8 lead. But before you could quote Mark twain's analysis of New England weather--"If you don't like it, want a few minutes"--the Williams attack fell victim to a severe drought and the Crimson stormed back. "We finally broke out of the doldrums in the fourth quarter and poured it on," coach Bob Scalese said...
...American and South Vietnamese refugees from Tan Son Nhut airbase near Saigon. But by last week, the airlift was growing increasingly dangerous. Artillery shells and rockets closed Tan Son Nhut airport Monday morning. Next day a U.S. C-130 transport was hit by a rocket on the runway and burst into flames as the crew escaped. A short tune later, two U.S. Marine corporals guarding the U.S. defense attache's compound at Tan Son Nhut were killed by Communist artillery...
...woman, caught between a bus and the building when a shell burst, was carried inside unconscious, but only from fright. A European walked down the line asking everybody to sign a 500-piaster note he wanted to keep as a souvenir. Sister Fidema of the Good Shepherd Convent in Saigon knelt over her suitcase and prayed. "I've been here four years," she said later. "These have been good years until this week. But this has been the saddest ever." The day before, 90 children from the convent had been taken out to Tan Son Nhut but had been...