Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their assigned trouble area on the East Side, National Guardsmen, jittery and untrained in riot control, exacerbated the trouble where it all started, on Twelfth Street (see box). Suspecting the presence of snipers in the Algiers Motel, Guardsmen laid down a brutal barrage of automatic-weapons fire. When they burst into a motel room, they found three dead Negro teen-age boys-and no weapon. The Guardsmen did have cause to be nervous about snipers. Helen Hall, a Connecticut woman staying at the Harlan House Motel just two blocks from Detroit's famed Fisher Building, on the fringe...
...rich burst of zoological invective, the paper declared that "the counterrevolutionary revisionists who have been dragged out are fierce dogs in water, are wounded tigers, are poisonous snakes not yet frozen by the cold...
...added that these problems "in no way justify riots, looting and arson." He continued: "But there can be no doubt that they provide the combustible environment in which a spark of criminal violence can burst into a flame of social disorder...
...Darrell Brandon, their starter, had been bombed, predictably enough, and Boston was trailing, 5-2 in the seventh inning. The Sox had had a ten-game winning streak shattered the night before, and 31,000 onlookers at Fenway Park were beginning to think that the bubble was ready to burst...
...fire. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues." Hoping to receive the spirit, Parham and a group of students at Topeka's Bethel Bible College spent an entire day in prayer; finally, after hours of supplication, a girl participant burst into an unintelligible babble. Modern Pentecostalism was born...