Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard shuttle bus borrowed by Phillips Brooks House (PBH) burst into flames near Medford last week, but with no loss of life or injury to the 30 young children and counselors in the vehicle, sources said yesterday...
Soon after the counselors evacuated the children, "the bus burst into flames and burned up," PBH President Shawn MacDonald '88 said yesterday. "Eventually the whole bus burned...
Last week the dream came true. The back door of a Wells Fargo truck lugging some $400,000 along route I-95 burst open and, suddenly, according to a highway patrolman, it "rained $20 bills." A massive traffic jam ensued as astounded motorists abandoned their vehicles to merrily chase the cash. When lawmen arrived and ordered the gleeful pursuers to return the loot, some complied. But all together, the money chasers carried with them what a Wells Fargo spokesman later called a "significant" amount of money...
...Archer broke down on the witness stand defending her husband, while Coghlan dissolved into sobs several times. When Archer's lawyer accused her of concocting the tale in exchange for $10,000 from the News, Coghlan burst out, "You are a liar." At one point, after Coghlan testified that the man she said was Archer had had a pimply back, Mrs. Archer forthrightly declared that her husband possessed "excellent skin." Archer, who did not show his back as evidence, testified that he spent the evening in question dining at a fashionable Mayfair restaurant named Le Caprice. Even the judge seemed...
...providing more journalistic and cultural freedom, Gorbachev has been able to produce an immediate, highly visible burst of reform at relatively little cost. A more difficult task will be introducing more demokratizatsiya into the political system, though here too the Soviets have taken some tentative first steps. Late last month, for the first time since the early days of Soviet power, voters in 5% of the country's roughly 52,000 districts were allowed to choose from party-appointed electoral lists with more candidates on the ballot than positions to be filled. The Supreme Soviet, the country's nominal parliament...