Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEIJING, China--More than 150,000 students and supporters of their pro-democracy campaign burst past a police line today and triumphantly filled Tiananmen Square, defying Communist leaders' threat of a crackdown...
...burst of efforts on the part of Harvard students to decrease fear on campus reveals more than the need for campus safety. The volunteers who are working to protect the rest of the Harvard community should make us aware not just of campus crime, but of the University's extreme negligence of student safety...
...crew members. Eight months later, his wife was driving to her job as a fourth- grade teacher at the elite La Jolla Country Day School. As she paused for a red light, Rogers heard a bang in her Toyota van; she leaped out, unharmed, just before the vehicle burst into flames. Investigators believe a terrorist pipe bomb was placed in the van in retaliation for the downing of the Iranian airliner...
Nuclear fusion, the process that fires the sun, usually occurs when two atoms are squeezed together at very high temperatures to make one new atom. For example, two atoms of deuterium -- an isotope of hydrogen -- can be fused to form a helium atom and a neutron, releasing a sizable burst of energy. But before that can occur, deuterium nuclei generally need to be compressed with sufficient force to overcome their mutually repellent electrical charges. In H-bombs, that force is supplied by the detonation of an A-bomb. Conventional fusion techniques require giant magnets, powerful laser beams and particle accelerators...
...easy intimacy of TV's close-ups, almost every company seems infatuated with mounting shows in gloomy near darkness or in silhouette behind a scrim. Moreover, many of the popular tricks of stagecraft (a costumed mannequin standing amid the audience's seats, a door flinging open to reveal a burst of light) are recognizable even to Westerners as derived from the 1960s work of such still active directors as Yuri Lyubimov and Oleg Efremov, who today runs the venerable Moscow Art Theater. The one true innovation of recent years, nudity, has become similarly cliched: bare breasts or bottoms, and even...