Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more powerful Deputies in the Assembly. She is speaker of the credentials committee and a member of the one on flood relief-the only two committees formed so far. When she demanded that all pregnant women be released from prison, the measure passed easily. When, in a burst of patriotic pontificating common to assemblies the world over, a draft resolution supporting the Vietnamese army at home and abroad was proposed, Mme. Xa raised her delicate eyebrows. '"Abroad?" she asked. "We are not fighting abroad. We have all we can do here." The phrase was struck...
...that an additional performance had to be scheduled to accommodate the 10,000 ticket seekers. In Warsaw, one of the biggest crowds ever to pack National Philharmonic Hall cheered and clapped for ten minutes. In Venice's San Giorgio church, where applause is forbidden, clergy and audience alike burst into a spontaneous ovation that one priest excused as "homage our Lord would surely want us to pay." The acclaim was neither for a renowned solo ist nor an old master, but for the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke by Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, Europe...
...clear what Safer meant. To him, the war in Viet Nam was all about husky, well-equipped Marines burning down an entire village, leveling 150 homes "in retaliation for a burst of gunfire." If there were Viet Cong around, Safer said, "they were long gone." And the Marines, he intimated, were wreaking a kind of harsh vengeance as the day's operation burned homes, "wounded three women, killed one baby, wounded one Marine and netted four prisoners-four old men who could not answer questions put to them in English. Four old men who had no idea what...
...course, the bubble will probably burst against Cornell this Saturday, when the Crimson will worry a lot more about just winning than its statistics. The Big Red has its own national leader, halfback Pete Larson who is the nation's fifth leading rusher with 436 yards in three games...
...what usually happens to Brown is that people pass him by without a backward glance. Then, he is likely to burst into a foot-stomping temper, as he did recently at the Los Angeles County Fair, in a much-publicized incident...