Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retain its internal heat. The atmosphere and seas were formed, creating conditions for the first stirrings of life. Eventually, winds, water and mountain-building eradicated or covered virtually all geological traces of the planet's violent beginnings. In contrast, the moon has remained largely unchanged since its last burst of volcanism, disturbed only by an occasional meteorite or a periodic moonquake (caused by the gravitational tug of the earth or sun as the moon's lopsided orbit occasionally brings the moon closer to them...
After weeks of investigation, French and U.S. officials believe that they have pinned down the cause of history's worst air disaster: the March 3 crash of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 just outside Paris that killed 346 people. An improperly sealed rear cargo door burst open in midair, and the loss of pressure in the cargo hold caused the plane's still-pressurized passenger cabin to buckle downward into the cargo compartment (see diagram). Passengers began spilling out of the plane, control cables to the rudder and stabilizers were fouled, and the plane crashed into a forest...
...mighty industries. Prices began to rise sharply in 1972, in part because of the sudden spurt in the global cost of commodities and smartly rising wages. To restrain inflation last year the government reined in the money supply and cut spending to the bone. Then the oil crisis burst on Japan, raising nightmares of economic stagnation. Panicky consumers rushed to buy up everything in sight, wholesalers hoarded goods in jammed warehouses in anticipation of even higher prices, and living costs ticked up with the regularity of a taxi meter. The government has now clamped a price freeze on many products...
...then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind and O! then the Roman candle burst and it was like a sign of O! and everyone cried O! O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dewy stars falling with golden, O so lively! O so soft, sweet, soft...
...raiders were not roaming gangsters; they were federal narcotics agents on the hunt for illicit drugs. Since 1970, the narcs, as they are known, have been operating under the "no-knock" provisions of a law intended to allow them to burst into a dwelling without warning so that their quarry will not have time to dispose of any drugs. But in a number of incidents across the country, including those in Illinois, the agents have been accused of conducting unauthorized or overzealous assaults...