Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Police records show that the place had been a haven for prostitution, narcotics and stolen ammunition; one night at the height of the riots, police hauled out a man with a rifle. Next night, after getting reports of sniping in the area, 16 police and National Guardsmen, guns blazing, burst into a ground-floor room in Algiers Manor, and manhandled its occupants-at least seven Negro men and two white girls-into spread-eagled positions against a wall. Then, said witnesses, Detroit police and a Guard unit led by a warrant officer indulged in an orgy of beating and bashing...
...curtain fell, the sellout audience of 3,000 burst into a 15-minute ovation. The company's stand at Expo 67, which continues for the next two weeks with the addition of Rimsky-Kor-sakov's The Legend of the City of Ki-tezh, Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades and Borodin's Prince Igor, was already a bolshoi success...
...Some lucky girls are born red," says another ad. "Others catch up." Of its $45 million advertising budget, the company is committing about $2,000,000 to Radiantly Red-four times as much as the entire Clairol cam paign cost when "Does she ... or doesn't she?" first burst out of women's magazines and into general conversation...
...huge, white light on the top," says Officer Jim Overton. "Down at the bottom it had a smaller, not so bright light. Around the center of this object was a band, either paint or a different kind of metal. It suddenly began to move with the most terrific burst of speed I've ever seen...
...stool. Lady Macbeth has to pick up the stool and smash it to the floor in order to snap him out of his hallucination. The second time, the apparition has moved to the upstage throne. Macbeth, tormented by this vision, sees only one care; in a furious and frightening burst of violence, he overthrows the tables between him and it, and hurls himself into the kingly seat--an act of inordinate courage. (This table-throwing works supremely well here, as it did not when Paul Scofield did the same thing in Peter Brook's King Lear...