Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explosive new trials are not to their liking. Only nine months after suffering the worst urban violence in the U.S. in this century, Los Angeles is bracing for trouble again. Already some youths are dusting off the NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE! placards that protesters waved last April when L.A. burst into flames after the acquittal of four white police officers in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King...
...Janet, an Army medic and private first class, is typical of the former. Janet was drinking off duty at Hula's, a gay hangout in Hawaii, when she was stopped by a courtesy patrol. "From that time on," she says, "I felt they were watching me." Inspectors would burst into her room at 2 a.m., seeking to catch her in a compromising position. Though she was never caught in flagrante delicto, her sergeant accused her of being gay because she had no boyfriends. Janet's assignments deteriorated. Most punishing was a three-month posting to the field for maneuvers that...
They weren't kidding. When Croat forces took the dam on Thursday, after a week-long struggle to regain territories that U.N. troops had failed to clear of Serb forces, the mines had already been detonated. Gushing water threatened to burst the 210-ft.-high (65-m) structure altogether, washing away the homes of 20,000 people downstream. At week's end Croatian officials were working feverishly to shore it up and drain the reservoir behind...
...first of the postwar ballet superstars, vastly increasing the dance audience. It is no exaggeration to say he burst upon the West, defecting in Paris at age 23 after being ordered back to the U.S.S.R. in the middle of a Kirov Ballet tour. His partnership with Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina of London's Royal Ballet, was the most famous of the century: her ineffable femininity, his feral grace. She called him "a young lion leaping," and wild he was. His tempers were fearsome, his demands insatiable. Unwilling to settle with one company, he put no limits on his own worth...
...rest between the muscle and spine. Earl returned a single shot. The boy fell dead. "After I shot the kid, I rocked him in my arms," says Earl, his voice cracking. "I took something I can never give back. I went home three days later, saw my kids and burst out crying." The bullet still rests against his spine. "I figure if somebody had taken some time to spend with that kid, showed they really, really cared, this wouldn't have happened. You can't save everybody, but if you save 1 out of 200, then you've accomplished something...