Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back-up Harvard QB Tim Perry brought the kickoff to the 25. On 1st-and-10, Hinz broke off the right tackle and--with a quick burst of speed--raced 25 yards to midfield...
...nominee of a party he would form later this month. A chief architect of the 1961 coup that brought Park Chung Hee to power, Kim Jong Pil is generally credited with forging economic policies that helped make Park's 18-year regime the crucible of a remarkable burst of development. The ex-Prime Minister said he was running in order to "take the judgment of the electorate" on the Park years. A former brigadier general, Kim Jong Pil is expected to attract a number of dissatisfied conservatives away from...
...potential vote getters: Bill Bradley, Mario Cuomo and Sam Nunn. Last week these noncandidates were joined by another refusenik: Colorado Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, who had been vigorously testing the waters since June, announced in Denver that she would not plunge in officially. To the embarrassment of her supporters, Schroeder burst into tears and had to be comforted by her husband James for a full minute before she could continue with her announcement. Schroeder gave a number of reasons for staying out, among them that she could not maintain personal contact with voters. Said she: "I could not bear to turn...
...alert Chris Arbery burst through to snatch the ball away as the Engineers haplessly scrambled for it. Arbery ran about 20 meters before being hit, and then pitched to the trailing Roberts, who rambled through three defenders for the score...
Some industry experts think the luxury-housing bubble is bound to burst before too long. The economy cannot keep expanding indefinitely, and interest rates, including mortgage costs, are starting to rise from the low levels that have prevailed for the past few years. But as long as the heated demand lasts, the megabuilders intend to keep putting up mansions that Citizen Kane would not be ashamed to live in. Says Budd Holden, a Los Angeles luxury-home developer: "The people spending millions of dollars on a home are buying not so much a house as a life-style...