Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dietrich Wessel and by the more calcified thinkers of the radical left is worth an hour and more of our Friday evenings? It is even harder to believe that Mr. Jamison could be "embarrassed to go to Harvard" because of the audience's reactions: I felt, with every burst of laughter and derision that night, that we were a healthy body defending itself against strangulation. May our laughter and derision be stronger for the next Dietrich Wessel. John A. Newmeyer Tutor in Social Relations
Wall Street reacted happily. Encouraged by the prospect that falling interest rates could lead to a new burst of corporate expansion, investors bid stock prices up to a new high for the year. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 7.83 points in a day to reach 938.28. At that level, it had climbed 68.63 points from its Aug. 9 summer low; it stood only a shade below its 1967 peak of 943.08. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index inched up 0.35 points to its own 1968 high...
...were no less ferocious, drawing raves of "fantastic" and "tremendous" from another old master, Don Budge. Okker prolonged the contest as much as he could, but finally stood helpless as Ashe ran out the last game at love. Then Ashe walked off the court and embraced his father, who burst into tears...
...Behold how quickly doth the bubble burst! Too bad there had to be a sacrificial lamb to point out the inevitable, but better Czechoslovakia now than us later. Conservatives are profoundly entitled to utter the loudest "We told you so" of the decade...
...embassy car from behind. Two men in green fatigues got out of the Toyota and ordered Mein from his car at the point of a submachine gun. He stepped out, then broke and ran. There was a shout: "Kill him! Kill him!" The submachine gunner squeezed off a burst at Mein's back. The ambassador fell in the middle of the street and died within moments...