Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets his tax increase, he stands to annoy everybody-and the closer to Election Day 1968 the increase is enacted, the more annoyance he is likely to arouse. Nevertheless, nearly all his economic aides-and many businessmen-consider the tax increase essential in order to avoid an inflationary burst that could destroy the dollar's viability in world trade and its purchasing power at home. Judging from the mood of Congress, he is not likely to get the increase without taking a fiscally responsible ax to some current federal spending...
...months have gone by since Black Power burst thus violently onto the scene, there has been a slow, subtle but steady shift in the attitude of Negroes-even the moderate Negro leaders-who were desperately opposed to the violent and separatist nature of the new crusade. What has clearly developed from this change is a Black Power movement set on a more respectable base, which at its best is in the spirit of what Frederick Douglass was advocating more than a century ago. The most intelligent spokesmen for the new attitude think of it in terms of Black Consciousness...
...away, gunning down an estimated 17 before slumping dead over his smoking barrel. The beleaguered battalion regrouped and called in air strikes. As the jets roared in at 500 feet to blast the top of the hill, one released a 500-or 750-lb. bomb too soon. It burst in the tall trees just above the battalion's command post, killing 30 U.S. paratroopers, many of them wounded who had been pulled up to the headquarters area for safety...
...With the burst of the misplaced bomb, the real ordeal of the battalion began. Eight of its 16 line officers had been killed, the other eight wounded. Only two of its three company commanders were alive. Only one medic had survived to treat the wounded, who lay bleeding and covered with grime on all sides, moaning for lack of morphine. Rescue and relief helicopters tried to reach the battalion, but were driven off by enemy rocket and machine-gun fire; twelve helicopters went down in the five days of fighting...
...students not only feel free to speak out in class but are very indignant when not given a chance to do so. In Mandel's political science course one boy burst into the teacher's long-winded interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine with: "It's not fair. You've been talking for fifteen minutes along this line. You've got to let someone go against...