Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assist the miners." Heath seized on the statement as evidence that McGahey was trying to bring down his government. The Labor Party leaped into the fray with a statement repudiating "any attempt by Communists or others to use the miners as a political battering ram." Then, to a burst of cheers from Labor benches in Parliament, Opposition Leader Harold Wilson declared that "the extremists in the situation are the vice president of the N.U.M. [McGahey] and Mr. Heath." The heated exchange caused a flurry of partisan name calling but hardly helped solve the miners' problem...
...even Senate Republicans admit that chances for impeachment would vastly increase if another Watergate bombshell burst over Nixon's head. Says one key Republican: "If, for example, it were shown that the President had anything to do with the 18-minute erasure, or that he was directly involved in any other aspect of the coverup, all bets against impeachment would...
Mark Banks turned to his brother in the back seat, breathed deeply with anticipation of the trial's beginning, and said, "Well, Dennis, tomorrow's the day of reckoning. How do you like the prospect of 85 years in prison?" Dennis Banks burst out laughing, sat back, and smiled grimly...
...fall, the energy crisis burst upon the U.S. with the emotional impact of a modern-day handwriting on the wall. After a long Belshazzar's feast of energy gluttony, it seemed, Americans were being called to a bitter reckoning. The winter loomed as a grim season of cold bedrooms and chilly classrooms, of painful shortages of oil-related products ranging from phonograph records to penicillin, of cramped inability to travel, of shuttered factories and high unemployment. And that supposedly would be only the start of a new lifestyle of thrift, sharing and self-denial -spiritually cathartic, perhaps, but hardly...
...higher reality was at hand, but like a burst of light in a dark room, it proved to be illusory. Poverty programs, free universities and Camelot gave way to Kent State, Cambodia and urban terrorism. The toll of death and deterioration set in: The Kennedys, King, Dak To, Khe Sanh, Watergate. The clenched fist replaced the V sign as idealists turned cynical. Dylan and his followers withdrew into a more personal and private world. After a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 1966, Dylan moved to his home in Woodstock, N.Y., and switched from participant to observer to chronicle the halcyon...