Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhere, a strange rectangular slab appears, gleaming in the primeval sunlight. Its appearance stimulates one of the simians to think for the first time of a bone as a weapon. Now he is man, the killer; the naked ape has arisen, and civilization is on its way. With a burst of animal spirits, the bone is flung into the air, dissolves into an elongated spacecraft, and aeons of evolution fall away. It is 2001, the epoch of A Space Odyssey...
...burst of discovery, the U.S. record-buying public is making it up to Redding for a side he made only 21 weeks before his death, Dock of the Bay. Surprisingly, Dock of the Bay is restful and reflective, whereas previous songs, like Shake and Try a Little Tenderness, were exuberant, even ecstatic. But it is no less authentically soulful, and its ironic air of premonition is not lost on the kids, either...
...Burst of Joy. The buying stampede began with Monday's 10 a.m. opening bell on the Big Board. Professionals and small investors alike grabbed at shares throughout the day. The exchange's new high-speed ticker ran 15 minutes late reporting floor transactions By closing, volume reached a record 17.73 million shares, toppling the old mark of 16.41 million shares set on Oct. 29, 1929, the Black Tuesday that triggered the Depression of the '30s. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks jumped 20.58 points, its biggest one-day gain m 41 years...
...grenade.' He probably yelled it, but I was switched off, half-dead from the pounding of the artillery and the 500-pound bombs and it seemed to me that the warning came in a whisper. Then he gave me a push. There was a flash and a furious burst of fire; the grenade had landed a yard away." The attack was repulsed by a radioman with a grenade launcher, but Just was badly gouged by the shrapnel...
...Lethal Burst. Even if a respite from the incessant Allied bombing had given them more time, it now seems doubtful that German scientists could have worked their way past their repeated oversights and gaffes. When U.S. troops captured the site of the final uranium pile in Haigerloch, Germany, accompanying U.S. scientists were astonished to discover that the Germans had made absolutely no provision for protecting themselves against atomic radiation. Had a successful chain reaction begun on the day of the last test, the Nazis' nuclear physicists would have been showered by a harmful, and perhaps lethal, burst of radiation...