Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...development of an economical system for converting sea water to fresh water. Scientists and industrialists from 58 nations will gather in Washington next week for the first international symposium on water desalinization. For hydrologists, who had to take a back seat during the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, this burst of attention has led not to a year of their own but a decade...
...moment for the awkward Hessian farmer's son until he remembered a good school in Karlsruhe on the Rhine. There the examiner, with more tact, looked over the madcap paintings on cardboard, asked, "Do you really think we ought to take you?" "With my talent," the youth burst...
...Oskar, a moral hunchback who reaches his third year and refuses to grow any more, sees the world from chair level. There are striking parallels, too, between writer and painter. Both were born in the decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler schools, both burst on the cultural scene in 1959 to become symbols of Germany's postwar conscience. Both, too, have been remarkably productive, Grass with nine published works, Antes with an astonishing 14 one-man shows in a scant three years...
...would cut across the Indian rear. The assault was mounted by the 1st Armored Division, reputed to be the best in the Pakistan army. The Indian strategy resembled that of Hannibal when he caught the Romans in a baglike trap and decimated them at Cannae. The Pakistani armored column burst through the first Indian line and plunged on only to find itself entrapped inside a horseshoe-shaped line of well-fortified Indian positions. Recoilless rifles, mounted on jeeps or dug into ground emplacements, poured a heavy fire into the massed Pakistani tanks. Support fire rained down from Indian 3.7 howitzers...
Geyser of Words. Again, poetry saved his sanity. "Effortless and unpreventable," it burst out of him like a geyser-three, four, a dozen poems a day. From the first his verse was simple, sensual, strong; though he rarely employed a metaphor, he continually induced his readers to produce their own images, to feel in their bodies what appeared on the page. At 22, in a violent convulsion of composition, he produced a five-act farrago called Götz von Berlichingen that read like second-rate Shakespeare but made him famous overnight as a leader in a new literary movement...