Word: erupted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Revolution did not erupt overnight. A long series of protests, such as the Boston Tea Party and the Harvard graduation of 1768--all the graduates wore clothing made of American cloth--should have given the House of Commons ample warning of the unrest. Yet prejudice against the colonists and their abilities, and the false sense of superiority in the British government, created the blunders that caused the American revolution, Tuchman argues...
Every eleven years the sun's outer layers erupt in a blaze of turbulent magnetic storms, characterized by an increase in sunspots and fiery explosions known as solar flares. In February 1980, on the eve of one such outburst, NASA launched an instrument-packed scientific satellite called the Solar Maximum Mission. Nicknamed Solar Max, the spacecraft was to photograph and monitor the sun's activity, which even at a distance of 93 million miles can disrupt global communications and power transmissions, influence weather and endanger space voyagers...
Harvard was unable to reach base in the fifth, and took the field after a one-two-three inning MIT took full advantage of three hits, including a base-clearing triple by center fielder Anderson, as well as two Crimson errors, to erupt for three runs in the bottom of the fifth...
Kennedy's 1000 days in office would be a halting struggle to implement liberal ideas. Kennedy would not take the lead he had promised on Civil Rights, for he feared his Black-white coalition in the South would descend into turmoil. But finally, when turmoil did erupt, he would be forced to take action, it had become politically acceptable to advocate slow social change in the South...
...been studying the pandas in their native habitat since December 1980. Unfortunately, by a curious botanical twist, a staple of their diet, the arrow bamboo, is now undergoing one of its periodic blossomings. When this happens, once every 45 or 50 years, a whole mountainside of bamboo may erupt in flowers, scatter seeds and then perish. The bamboo will regrow in a few years to sufficient size (perhaps 3 ft. high) to provide fresh food for the pandas. Meanwhile, they must scramble for other food...