Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's rhetoric may have cost the U.S. propaganda points at the U.N. Delegates to the disarmament conference gave the President only a cool round of handclapping after his speech. Said Reagan to aides: "That was a hard audience." In contrast, the delegates had burst into applause two days earlier at one point during Gromyko's address. That demonstration occurred when Gromyko read to the conference a message from U.S.S.R. President Leonid Brezhnev declaring that the Soviet Union "assumes an obligation not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. This obligation shall become effective immediately...
Ahead of the central column, Israeli jets had been bombing the town of Nabatiyah for several hours. A Skyhawk fighter, hit by a P.L.O. SA-7 missile, burst into an orange ball of flame. The pilot, Captain Aharon Achiaz, parachuted to earth, where he was attacked by a group of villagers. Then he was taken by P.L.O. guerrillas and rushed off to Beirut. There he appeared at a press conference, where he smilingly declared: "I have been treated very well. I am not afraid." He was the first Israeli pilot shot down in combat since...
Though both the President's delivery and the responses were restrained, in keeping with British tradition, Reagan drew rumbles of "hear, hear" and a burst of applause by asserting that in the Falkland Islands British soldiers are fighting not "for lumps of rock and earth" but for the principle that armed aggression must not be allowed to succeed...
...ground beneath us, and soldiers crouched as bullets from the ship whistled past." Hundreds of men rushed along the decks of both ships, pulling on life jackets and leaping into water that was sometimes aflame with burning oil. Bright orange life rafts were thrown into the sea; some immediately burst into flame as they were hit by debris from the explosions, while others were blown by fierce winds back into the inferno. The winds whipped up huge flames aboard the landing vessels, and then, as fuel tanks exploded, the ships were enveloped in black, acrid smoke...
...shattered the confidence of the postwar College, and punctured most of the stuffy heritage (and too many of the civilized and gentle men) that always had marked this school. It was probably the shortest lived important era in the College's history. By 1973, the blister had burst, the swelling gone down, the fever broken. William Mattin '72, "I seem to recall another building occupation what was largely ignored during my senior year, but by my graduation in 1972, the seventies, for better or worse, had begun." WHICH brings us to the present, to the era that includes the class...