Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gift. Ellington burst on the jazz scene in 1927 at Harlem's Cotton Club. Right into 1974 he kept a 16-piece band circling the globe. "What would I do sitting in one place?" he asked a few years ago. "How would I get to hear the new things I write? What reason would I have to retire from the road?" Only illness. Two months ago, Ellington entered Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center with lung cancer, then developed pneumonia. Last week, only a month after his 75th birthday, Edward Kennedy Ellington died...
Hearst was assured that he would be the first to know. When they called him with the news that his daughter was not one of the victims, Hearst could only gasp, "Thank God!" His wife burst into tears...
...guns. When they opened fire, we saw their shells explode inside Israeli lines about one mile away. "It is a daily thing," a Syrian officer said. "We try to stop them from improving their positions." It was not too long before the Israelis responded. American-made 155-mm. shells burst on either side of the bunker...
...minute score. In fact, the Dybbuk music is a bland, pseudo-modern pastiche-a murmuring of Mahler here, a shriek of Stravinsky there, stray leitmotifs of Hasidic melody to suggest ethnicity. Robbins' choreography matches the music, sometimes cliché for cliché. When the orchestra explodes in a burst of Yiddish song, dancers sway sinuously, as if at a ghetto wedding. There are great yaps of brass at Big Moments of high stress; on stage, the performers thrust splayed hands to the skies or to the audience as if they had just discovered Martha Graham...
...Nobel laureate, reported that they had used lasers to ignite a brief but clearly detectable fusion reaction. Since then, their experiments have been repeated-and improved upon-in a number of countries, including the U.S., France, Britain and West Germany. But scientists are not yet certain that the burst of neutrons that characterizes such reactions is produced by true thermonuclear fusion or by the collision of relatively few fast-moving atomic nuclei in the compressed deuterium or tritium...