Word: erupted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gitl can only take so much pain. She grows progressively more despondent over her justifiable suspicions that Jake is still seeing his old girlfriend. Tensions come to a head when he finds his wife with her hair seemingly french-fried in a hapless attempt to imitate American styles. They erupt out of mutual frustration, he hits her, and their scuffle ends several scenes later in an Orthodox Jewish divorce. Jake runs off with his girlfriend, and Gitl makes plans to marry Bernstein...
WATCHING Old Man Boyle is sort of like eavesdropping in Central Park--you hear people saying vague things about their ordinary lives because they don't have anything to do but talk. You listen to a couple of policemen boast; a few words erupt from Old Man Boyle, their senile ward; three crotchety sisters settle on a bench to complete their crossword puzzle; and a wanton woman who might have scrubbed floors in Blooming dale's for 20 years reminisces. Except there's something off-beat about this everyday company. There's a plaintive note in all of their voices...
...military Revolutionary Council, Gonçalves had exerted every effort to survive. "They may have to march Gonçalves out at the end of a barrel of a gun," said one Western diplomat. "But the alternative would be an uprising in the countryside." In fact, violence continued to erupt in northern and central Portugal, where mobs have wrecked some 50 Communist Party headquarters this summer. When a power failure cut off electricity throughout the country for a day, there were widespread fears that a coup was actually under...
...yield power. In a surprise development, South African Prime Minister John Vorster and Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda arrived at the falls-Vorster to put pressure on the whites and Kaunda on the blacks to reach a compromise. Both men were concerned that otherwise a savage civil war would erupt and spill into their countries. As one summit participant put it, the two leaders "first urged, then pleaded and finally threatened." But to no avail...
...Fires erupt everywhere in the city, ignited by short circuits and fed by leaking gas mains. Fire fighters quickly scramble into action, but their trucks cannot negotiate torn-up streets. Because of broken water mains, fire hydrants are useless. At least half the city's phones are dead. The rescuers are further hampered by the destruction of medical supplies-including vital blood plasma-and the collapse of half of the Bay Area's hospitals...