Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backwoods of West Virginia, the flag in front of my high school flew at half-mast. Martin Vineyard, Union High School Class of 1988, United States Marine Corps, was listed killed in action. When the mother of my high-school buddy Sonny told me the story, she suddenly burst into tears in front of me; her son was getting ready to ship out to Saudi Arabia...
...change in the chlorine process will also make water purification safer, Cusack said. Earlier this month two workers were hospitalized after a one-ton tank of chlorine liquid burst...
...cheers, anyway. Because this is not the revolution that I, at least, signed on for. When the feminist movement burst forth a couple of decades ago, the goal was not just to join 'em -- and certainly not just to beat 'em -- but to improve an imperfect world. Gloria Steinem sketched out the vision in a 1970 TIME Essay titled "What It Would Be Like If Women Win." What it would be like was a whole lot better, for men as well as women, because, as she said right up front, "Women don't want to exchange places with...
Most reassuring of all, however, is the prospect that the German economy will, as never before, take over the leading role in Europe because of a huge burst of investment and energy that will go into the reconstruction of eastern Germany and the rest of Eastern Europe. The German economy is expected to grow by 3% next year. "At a time when a slowdown is taking place among many industrialized countries," said Pohl last week, "united Germany's economic dynamism is acting as a locomotive for the world economy." Every country is likely to benefit from the huge demand...
...Marsalis is not competitive. Otherwise, God help the competition. From the time he first appeared on a public concert stage with the New Orleans Philharmonic at age 14, Marsalis has been blowing away would-be rivals and leaving music professionals flap-jawed at his technical virtuosity. In 1984 he burst into national prominence by winning Grammys in both the classical and jazz categories, the first of eight such awards he has collected. The unmistakable sound of his horn, whose fat, breathy tone can sing, shout, growl and whisper like a human voice, has thrilled audiences from New York City...