Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought enough artillery to the edge of the city to level it utterly if they chose to do so. On the northern edge of Saigon, flatbed trucks piled high with crated ammunition roared away from the supply depot at Newport, their air horns shrieking. The Newport tank farm burst into flame with a series of explosions that shook the ground and sent clouds of black smoke, easily visible from the center of Saigon, billowing into...
...simply a burst of excitement however that led him to declare that "Dylan is the closest thing we have to Shakespeare." Poets like Eliot, he argued, may have displayed more genius in their verse, but they were never to reach the large audiences that Dylan appeals to Because of his medium, music and the ways he is able to manipulate it (from the folk song tradition to electric "folk rock" to the Nashville sound), Dylan is capable of communicating good poetry to more people than the modernists could ever have hoped...
...tennis fans are used to such antics. Ever since the young man with the impish grin, two-fisted backhand and high-octane temper burst into pro tennis three years ago, the keepers of decorum have been alternating between disgust at his behavior and admiration for his play. Rumania's Ilie ("Nasty") Nastase, of course, has for years been notorious for his displays of anger and unsportsmanlike conduct, but James Connors has taken the art of on-court temperament to new heights ? or depths. Given an audience, Connors can seldom resist the temptation to ham. Occasionally he loses control...
After the Minutemen's six-goal scoring burst Harvard was relegated to the task of playing catch-up ball and although a brief third-quarter rally brought them within three, at 9-6, UMass regained its first half form and proceeded on yet another six goal scoring rampage...
...remains what it has been for a generation: a possibility. But in a number of laboratories and one private company-KMS Industries of Ann Arbor, Mich.-scientists are moving closer to doing what they know can be done: fusing the nuclei of deuterium and tritium to create a powerful burst of energy. At KMS and the Government's Los Alamos lab, lasers are being used to "implode" deuterium pellets. Energy has been produced, but not enough to be measured accurately or drive the laser. Within three to five years, scientists hope to reach that break-even point. Power from...