Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exigent Mistress." Eugène Delacroix burst upon Paris at the age of 24 when he exhibited in the Salon his tortured scene of hell, Dante and Virgil. The painting was viciously attacked by some of the critics, but the government of France bought it all the same-a purchase so out of character for bureaucratic establishments as to inspire a generally accepted conjecture that Delacroix was the illegitimate son of Talleyrand, the French foreign minister...
...mounted a security force that outdid even the Bulganin-Khrushchev welcome in 1956. On hand were 5,000 police, including plainclothesmen disguised in everything from morning coats to overalls. As the royal procession of carriages clip-clopped from Victoria Station, where Elizabeth greeted them, to Buckingham Palace, a woman burst from the crowd and shrieked: "Release my husband!" She turned out to be Mrs. Betty Ambatielos, 45, the English wife of Antonios Ambatielos, a Greek Communist serving a life term for his part in the cival...
...Burst of Laughter. In the Administration's wording, Title II would apply only to accommodations involved to a "substantial" degree in interstate commerce. That puzzled even Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a civil-righteous sort if ever there was one. Asked Celler, after Bobby had finished reading his prepared statement: "What is 'substantial'?" Bobby's answer touched off a burst of laughter in the crowded hearing room. Replied he: "More than minimal...
Last week's Le Mans was true to tradition. Brazil's Bino Heins, 28, was killed when his French-built Alpine skidded on an oil slick, clipped a fence pole, spun into a ditch, and burst into flames. The fastest car in the race, a prototype 4.9-liter Maserati, led for the first two hours (averaging about 120 m.p.h.), then pulled into the pits, and was not seen again. The U.S.'s Phil Hill, driving an Aston Martin, topped a hummock at 150 m.p.h. to find a car rolling over and over directly in front...
Successful revolutions typically originate less from a sense of hopelessness than from aroused hope. What began as a legal evolution with the Supreme Court's May 1954 school-desegregation decision has now burst into a feverish, fragmented, spasmodic, almost uncontrollable revolution...