Word: eruption
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retreat in central New Hampshire, is like any other summer camp. But it has youngsters like Anthony, 9, who giggles uncontrollably; Alice, 8, who counters the slightest frustrations with tantrums; and Harold, 11, a handsome, charming child of the streets whose smile hides deep currents of anger that can erupt any time...
Just when Washington is trying to cultivate warmer relations with oil-rich Mexico, a decade-old trade row over winter vegetables threatens to erupt again. Responding to complaints from some Florida growers, the Treasury Department has begun investigating whether Mexican exports of tomatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, squash and cucumbers have been "dumped" in the U.S.-that is, sold at prices below their cost of production. Should the Mexicans be found guilty of violating the antidumping law they would have to pay duties on their produce to cover the margin of dumping. The issue is hot. As a State Department specialist...
Nearly 30 years later, no one is amused. Among the soldiers and civilians who watched the mushroom clouds erupt over Nevada and Utah in the 1950s and early 1960s there has been a disturbingly high incidence of cancer, notably leukemia. Convinced that the disease resulted from radiation exposure, hundreds of veterans or their families, as well as local residents, have filed claims against the Government for millions of dollars in damages...
...would whip out his notebook and do his calculations. Stymied by a thorny problem, he would tell his colleagues in accented English, "Now I will a little tink," pace slowly up and down, while twirling a lock of his unruly hair, or perhaps puff on his pipe, then suddenly erupt in a smile and announce a solution. Interrupted by parades of visitors to his Mercer Street house, he could resume his work almost as soon as they stepped out of his second-floor study. Recalls British Author C.P. Snow: "Meeting him in old age was rather like being confronted...
...Olivier moves through the movie like a haunted little ham, carrying the weight of the Holocaust on his feeble shoulders. The character pushes himself--the way Olivier must have pushed himself to do this role while in and out of the hospital for heart surgery--and suddenly he'll erupt with a screech so charged that this comatose movie wakes up and shakes itself...