Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final burst of masochism this week, Mondale planned a "fly around" finale: a red-eye commercial flight from Los Angeles to Newark (E.T.A. 3:30 a.m.), a frantic last flurry of speechifying in New Jersey (107 delegates), followed by a flight back across the country to California (306 delegates)-via campaign stops in West Virginia (35 delegates) and New Mexico (23)-all in less than 24 hours...
...beachhead in the Pacific. He was scared to death. Heavy enemy fire was killing his buddies all around him. When a shell burst near by, he felt an excruciating pain and the sensation of blood pouring down his leg. There was a call for a corpsman, and he was carried to a medical station, where doctors discovered he had indeed been hit-on his canteen. They sent him back out. More shells, more bombs...
...medical station. The doctor took some tweezers, picked out a few fragments of metal from his face, slapped on some adhesive bandages and sent him back to fight once more. By then, almost his entire company had been wiped out. For the third time, a shell burst near him. It tore off his leg. He did not feel a thing...
...Harvard, as at many other schools, the administration seemed to lose its way. Early in the decade Pusey had made statements lauding what he saw as a new burst of student activism, but he could hardly have expected the upheavals that the next few years would bring. Where Harvard's public reputation during the '50s as a foe of McCarthy produced a feeling of collective purpose, in the '60s groups within the University turned on each other. In the opinion of many, demagogery had proved to have a home on the left as well as the right. Pusey was perplexed...
...Korea, Viet Nam and Europe. Lantagne, a native of Lewiston, Me., remembers that he was tending German and American wounded in a village church not far from Utah Beach when the village was recaptured by the Germans. "A high-ranking German, accompanied by troops with automatic weapons, suddenly burst into the church. They looked at us, at the bloodstained pews and the German wounded, then turned around and went out without saying anything." Lantagne has befriended some of the German veterans of the campaign. "The Wehrmacht soldiers were ordinary guys," he says, "but the SS troops were something else. They...