Word: outbursts
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...coup was quashed too late, however, to prevent a bloody and destructive outburst of public anger. A mob scaled the 10-ft.-high walls of Lafontant's Port-au-Prince compound, killing a dozen suspected Tontons Macoutes holed up inside. Infuriated at what was seen as support for the coup makers by the conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy, crowds torched Haiti's 220-year-old cathedral and destroyed the Vatican embassy, stripping the papal nuncio down to his shorts before he was rescued and assaulting his chief aide with a machete...
Ciavaglia was awesome on the evening, adding an assist to his three-goal outburst. After offsetting penal...
Jokes aside, the rift between Washington and Jerusalem appeared to be widening alarmingly. Senior Administration officials insisted Baker's crack was no impulsive outburst but a calculated attempt "to lay down a marker before the new Israeli government locked itself into a position that made further progress ((toward peace talks)) even more difficult...
...recent outburst against vice marketing seems motivated by a larger social movement, suddenly abloom at the turn of the decade, in which citizens are demanding more socially responsible behavior from individuals and corporations alike. In a fashion, the spirit of the war on drugs has carried over to legal but abusable substances...
...chaplain in the face, grabbed his microphone and started yelling obscenities into it. As the revolt spread, inmates brutalized other prisoners and smashed and set fire to the facility. Some climbed on roofs and threw tiles at riot police who gathered below. Strangeways governor Brendan O'Friel described the outburst as "an explosion of evil . . . possibly the worst incident in the history of the prison service...