Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Claude Guerrero, a Brink's security officer, was watching television in his apartment near Paris one evening last week when four or five gunmen carrying walkie-talkies and wearing masks and bulletproof vests burst into the room. While one of the intruders held his family hostage, Guerrero was whisked away in a car to the Brink's main warehouse where he worked, some 15 miles away in the northwest Paris suburb of Colombes...
THERE IS SOMETHING wonderful about the new burst of volunteerism described in recent Crimson articles, but there is also something typically Harvardian about the whole phenomenon...
After only nine minutes had elapsed, Harvard burst into the lead on a heads-up play by Captain Lane Kenworthy, who worked a shot past goalie Jeff Duback when the Yale defense failed to clear the ball...
...parade of valuables in Washington might suggest, to the uninitiated, that the British can easily afford to maintain them. Some mildew and burst upholstery would lend poignancy to the subliminal cry for help. In any case, a collection is not a house, and the catchpenny title "Treasure Houses"-- suggesting Palladian Fort Knoxes inhabited by Volpones from Debrett's--does not convey the agreeably worn mixture of the grand and the scruffy that often defines their charm. The show embraces conventions of glamour (mainly about Georgian England) that few social historians would accept today. It rehearses the conventional picture of enlightened...
...afraid to show their feelings. The Silicon man doesn't seem to have any. When the wife wants to make some emotional connection, like during a crisis, Silicon man runs up to his brain and sits there a while. Ralph: Surely this is warm jocularity. Perhaps a rich burst of feminist humor...