Word: bursts
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...expected maximum height at St. Louis to be raised a full foot within two days late last week. On Saturday, thunderstorms dropped an additional 5 in. of rain on central Iowa. A dangerous second crest could chase the big one down the Mississippi, and secondary rivers could burst their banks in areas so far spared. That happened last Thursday night in Fargo, North Dakota. The Red River, engorged by a daylong deluge, rose 4 ft. in six hours, rampaging into town and causing sewage to back up into homes and Dakota Hospital...
...second son of famed paleontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, Richard first burst into global prominence in 1972 when his team in Kenya unearthed a beautifully preserved 1.9 million-year-old skull of Homo habilis, an early hominid species first discovered by his parents. Ian Tattersall, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, observes that the younger Leakey has more than his share of luck. "Louis Leakey had to crawl over hot rocky outcrops for 30 years before he found anything of importance; Richard struck gold from the start." Roger Lewin, collaborator on three...
United, American and Delta may not be cowering at the thought of Classic Air, but the one-plane carrier represents a competitive spirit that is sweeping the entire industry -- and may ultimately threaten the industry leaders. In the biggest burst of entrepreneurial excitement since the boom after deregulation in the early 1980s, it seems that almost everyone with a hankering to start an airline is suddenly preparing for takeoff. Despite an industrywide slump and record losses of $8 billion since 1990, some 15 passenger airlines have begun flying in the past year alone. They range from Reno Air, a full...
...Deluge occurred when water in subterranean chambers burst through the earth's surface with an energy exceeding "the explosion of 10 billion hydrogen bombs...
...supposed to happen this week, stunning America with a new and ghoulish kind of pre-Fourth of July fireworks display. It won't, though. A SWAT team of FBI agents and New York City police burst into a garage in the borough of Queens at 1:30 last Thursday morning, catching five men hunched over 55-gal. barrels, swirling wooden spoons to mix fertilizer and diesel fuel into an explosive paste. The alleged bombmakers were hauled into court, some still wearing overalls splotched with what the local FBI chief called a "witches' brew." They and three others nabbed in raids...