Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When head coach Joe Restic came in to the Varsity Club yesterday afternoon and held up the jersey with the number 75 on it, announcing, "This is your new captain," the room burst into a huge ovation for the popular Jiggetts...
...empty, finished his perorations, walked away from the mottled-marble rostrum and clasped his hands over his head in a boxer's victory stance. Led by delegates from Arab nations, the crowded Assembly Hall-the seats were predictably empty at the table reserved for Israel's delegation-burst into a roar of applause. U.S. Ambassador John Scali and most Western delegates, however, politely sat on their hands...
...killing had occurred in the hallowed precincts of Belgravia itself. At 10:30 one night, the estranged wife of Lord Lucan, the great-great-grandson of the misguided commander who ordered the charge of the Light Brigade, burst through the door of the Plumbers' Arms, a pub near her house. With blood spurting from several head wounds, she screamed: "Murder! Murder! I think my neck has been broken. He tried to kill me. I think I am dying." Actually Lady Lucan, 35, was not grievously wounded. When police searched her five-story town house, however, they found the body...
...Disorder is the work of Ivan Passer, whose Intimate Lighting was one of the highlights of that brief burst of films from Czechoslovakia that also included Loves of a Blonde and Closely Watched Trains. This is his second American feature and it betrays an addled, even desperate sensibility. Passer's talents have received scant nourishment on American soil...
...hours after the mini-revolt began, they acted. Magnesium grenades were thrown through the chapel windows, temporarily stunning and blinding everyone inside. The outer doors were quietly unlocked, and the lock on the inner door was cut with acetylene torches, a process that took only ten seconds. Fifteen marines burst through, disarming the convicts before they could fire a shot...