Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just this way, in a deep, comfortable New England-with-a-trace-of-Europe accent. As he preaches, jarring his listeners with references to the desperation of Steve McQueen in Papillon or the decadence of Holiday and Ramada Inns littering the countryside, his pleasant voice seems ready to burst at any moment into joyful music. And, in any Gomes service, it frequently yields to the temptation. Though he once wanted little from churches besides the music, Reverend Gomes has emerged as the right man for Memorial Church in a troubled era that seems to hold only wrong times...
...reduce the shock and bitterness, Premier Golda Meir's government abruptly changed its list of missing to 80 names. The Syrians, however, listed only 62 soldiers, which meant that 18 of the 80 were still unaccounted for; their status was changed last week to "presumed dead." Mrs. Meir burst into tears as she accepted the list from Kissinger in her office. General David Elazar, Israel's chief of staff, was also on the verge of weeping as he handed the list to subordinates to begin notification of next...
Cagney is coming back. He's going to be on TV soon, after a long period of seclusion. The Public Enemy was one of two films that burst out in 1931 to start a tradition of gangster films. Cagney (with his grapefruit) tries to be tough. But the film shows his family, too, and the final scene when he returns home is always moving, no matter how many times you've seen the movie...
...only when I reached junior high that I became aware of my ignorance. I made captain of the Simon Baruch Junior High School 104 chess team with ease, but when we began to participate in city-wide tournaments my bubble burst. In eleventh grade our team--me on first board and my friend Harry Chun on second--met down at the roomy old McAlpin Hotel on 34th St. and 8th Ave. in New York...
Inmates who knew DeFreeze reportedly said that they recognized his voice from the tape, and at least three witnesses to the kidnaping were said to have identified him by photo as one of the two black men who, accompanied by a young white woman, burst into the Hearst apartment. Authorities were also looking for another prison escapee, The-ro M. Wheeler, 29, a jail acquaintance of DeFreeze's, who at one time was active in a California revolutionary Maoist group known as Venceremos. At week's end an intensified search for the two escapees, both of whom have been...