Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 lifted off last Wednesday for an 8:31 flight to Salt Lake City, the 108 passengers and crew members sensed trouble immediately. The plane was only about 30 ft. above the runway when three backfiring noises erupted, followed by a burst of flames from the left engine and a sudden stall. Horrified passengers on a commuter plane sitting on a nearby runway saw the sinking plane. "Get up! Get up!" some shouted...
...when someone has entered the room behind him. By nature gregarious, he must keep the truth about his family guarded from those who would be his pals. But Danny is, after all, a teenager. He has a girlfriend (Martha Plimpton) now, and a secret that is aching to burst from him like young lust...
Laury Miller recalls with awe the moment he first saw the infrared image of the two cyclones. The picture, taken by a Japanese weather satellite, revealed two giant Pacific storms in temporary but exact alignment on opposite sides of the equator. That conjunction generated a massive burst of westerly winds across thousands of miles of the equatorial ocean, pushing a surge of warm water eastward. Miller, a Government oceanographer, abruptly realized he was looking at a mysterious natural engine that drives El Nino, the unruly fluctuation of weather that periodically afflicts places as widespread as South America, Asia, Alaska...
...contained" rupture -- a disk that has become distended but has not yet broken through the fibers that hold its contents in place. Moreover, 12% to 15% of Onik's patients require a second operation, usually a laminectomy, because X rays failed to reveal that the tissue had already burst out of the disk and lodged against a nerve. An additional 10% experience only partial relief but are not in enough pain to want another operation...
...Hunts attributed the price rise to such events as the hostage crisis in Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But plaintiffs in the trial accused them of conspiring with several Middle Eastern investors to create a monopoly. The bubble burst in January 1980, dropping silver's price to $10.80 in about two months. The Hunts lost approximately $1.3 billion, and many investors lost millions...