Word: burstingly
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...pretended to glance over at the tree he was standing under, looking for a bird whose song we could have sworn we recognized. But under that thin, hard coat of well-bred civility, there was an unsatisfied urge to mob him. Like a dam waiting to burst, we looked around at each other, wondering who would be the first to release the floodgate...
...This burst of black artistry is a by-product of an underappreciated American success story: the growing clout and affluence of the black middle class. Since 1967 the number of black families with incomes of more than $50,000 has quadrupled to more than 1 million, and with this increased wealth has come an increase in education, leisure and interest in the arts. Exploiting the new freedom created by the drive for civil rights during the past generation, black artists have escaped from the aesthetic ghetto to which they were once confined, where the patronizing assumption was that they would...
...Enrollment peaked in 1991, the climax of Japan's economic growth and then the bubble burst," Jacobsen said. "The clientele has shifted to Chinese, which may have something to do with the prospects of that economy...
...paean to belief in oneself, was obviously deeply felt. Minutes later, when Heather Whitestone, who is deaf in one ear and has only 5% hearing in the other, won the 74th annual Miss America Pageant, she didn't realize it until her runner-up pointed to her. Then she burst into happy tears -- joined, undoubtedly, by thousands of viewers around the country...
Things turned sour again before Cedras finally capitulated. Well past Clinton's original noon deadline, Biamby burst into the room to report that he had received a fax and two phone calls from the U.S. informing him that American airborne troops had taken off and the invasion was about to begin. "He concluded we were part of a trap," says Nunn. Biamby told Cedras to go into hiding instantly and warned Nunn that he would commit suicide before he would flee the country. Nunn said he feared "it was over, we weren't going to get any agreement." Cedras said...