Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as that hope blossomed, an older blight on the American conscience burst through with the capriciousness of a spring freeze. In Memphis, through the budding branches of trees surrounding a tawdry rooming house, a white sniper's bullet cut down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., pre-eminent voice of the just aspirations and long-suffering patience of black America...
...deftly fingers and foots his way through some of the smoothest soul this side of Albert Schweitzer. Neatly propelled by Drummer Donald Bailey and spelled by Grant Green's guitar solos, Smith handily consoles his listeners in I'm Movin' On and Back Talk, a surpassing burst of blues...
...Viet Nam valley. The air crackled with messages from pilot to gunner reporting enemy fire from thatched huts in the village below. The gunner, a young towheaded boy with bubble gum bulging his cheeks, swiveled the M-60 machine gun into position and squeezed off a perfect burst into one of the huts. "That's the way, Jeff!" cheered the lad's buddy, above the whoppa-whoppa-whoppa din of the rotor blades. "Now hit that bridge...
...shock of last Tuesday's events fell hardest on the student protestors themselves. What to do next? First came a burst of penitence--a movement to raise the $500,000 from other sources, kicked off Thursday by a $500 pledge by the B.U. student government. SDS skeptics have resisted though--wouldn't it be more consistent to try to raise money to help Gordon's tenants...
...fire began in a pan of wax which someone was melting over a hot plate, Mrs. Jo J. Heunemann, dorm resident, said yesterday. The burner was left on overnight, and the wax burst into flame, she added. A wall beside the hot plate was charred, but the fire activated the sprinkler system before any further damage was done...