Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Yankees began the baseball year in a slump, owner George Steinbrenner pledged that manager Dallas Green would last the entire season. As he put it, "If you want to go out and make a bet . . ." Given Steinbrenner's way with managers, cordons of nuns might have burst from cloisters to cover that one. Once, a U.S. Secretary of State breezily invoked the name of Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder in gauging the odds on a successful summit...
...potential source of conflict is outside interference from such groups as the Iraq-based People's Mujahedin of Iran. There is also the danger of a new burst of Iran-sponsored international terrorism as rival organizations contend for power. "As the factionalism builds up, there will be more free-lance terrorism and less control from the center," warns Gary Sick, who monitored Iran for the National Security Council under the Carter Administration...
During Follini's subterranean stay, her sense of time had elongated. Her "day" extended to 25 hours, then to 48 hours. She tended to sleep for 22 to 24 hours, then burst into activity for up to 30 hours. She ate less frequently and lost 17 lbs. Her menstrual period stopped. In short, her internal biological clocks had gone out of whack...
...shuffled about on summer days swathed in mufflers and overcoats (because of his hypochondria), and in concerts sat himself down on a pygmy chair and proceeded to sigh, groan, sing and wave his hands about as he played? Who could resist the story of the monkish prodigy who burst onto the scene at 23 only to abandon concerts for good eight years later? When Gould died at 50 in 1982, he left behind a mess of unanswered letters and a plethora of unanswered questions. Now, for the first time, the whole jumble has been largely straightened out in an admirably...
...contrary way that economists have come to view the world during the long expansion of the 1980s. Instead of bemoaning the big leap in the number of unsuccessful job seekers, the experts cheered it as a sign of a slowdown that lessens the chance of a new burst of inflation. "No matter how bad the news," observes Pierre Rinfret, a Manhattan-based economic consultant, "the market will find something good in it." Just as the market, which seems to obey none of the usual rules, almost always manages to find something bad in the very best of news...