Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...degenerate father. Second he learns about the price of integrity, avoiding false emotionalism in his early relationship with Paula. Third, he discovers that he can combine these with true friendship and generosity. In a subplot that could have become hokey, but somehow doesn't Mayo provides the final burst of encouragement a lone female trainee needs to prove herself physically capable of making the grade...
...front in a small military convoy of Land Rovers. The mist rising from the Shatt al Arab waterway is steamy, the sky so luminous that it seems ready to burst into flame. There was shelling during the night from the Iranian artillery five miles away, but people seem unperturbed as they open their shops, till their fields and move cargoes along the waterway in long, canoe-shaped dhows...
...their mansion in Villanova, Pa. Originally a salesman, Gross entered Lockheed in 1932 when his older brother Robert and partners bought control of a company then in receivership. Under Gross, Lockheed diversified, building satellites, Poseidon missiles and ships in addition to supersonic airplanes. During one astounding four-year burst in the early 1960s, he nearly doubled Lockheed's profits. A courtly Boston-born Harvard man who enjoyed such amenities as English-tailored suits and custom-made shoes, he could also answer half seriously, when asked what he did for a living, "I am an aircraft mechanic...
...soon as he went public that his own political apostasy would probably lead to his removal from Stellenbosch. Pondering what to do, "I prayed to God to show me a way," he says. "The very next day I received the call in a telegram. As I read it, I burst into tears." A 1,000-member church in Mamelodi, a black township outside Pretoria, was inviting him to become a pastor. Smith immediately said...
...keep us in suspense." Atkins then announced that the U.S. Supreme Court had unanimously reversed the decision of a Mississippi court, which had assessed the N.A.A.C.P. more than $1.25 million in damages for supporting a 1966 boycott by blacks of discriminatory merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. Jubilant delegates burst into old freedom songs and danced in the aisles in a 30-minute display reminiscent of the civil rights rallies of the '60s. -ByJackE. White