Word: outbursts
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...unusual outburst was triggered by a provocative newspaper article. The London Sunday Times, citing "sources close to the Queen," had reported that Elizabeth II was "dismayed by many of Mrs. Thatcher's policies." For weeks there had been rumors that Her Majesty was not amused by divisions within the 49-member Commonwealth over Thatcher's refusal to consider sanctions against South Africa. But the Sunday Times's story went further. It charged that "the Queen considers the Prime Minister's approach often to be uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive." Specifically, the report continued, the monarch feels that the Thatcher government...
Boston added a run in the second inning, two in the third, and four in both the sixth and seventh to augment its first-inning outburst...
Mehmet Ali Agca was at it again. "I am Jesus Christ," bellowed the man who shot Pope John Paul II. "All the world will be destroyed." The now familiar outburst came on March 22, the final day of the marathon "Bulgarian connection" trial in Rome. The prosecution's aim: to prove that the Turkish gunman, who was convicted in 1981 of gravely wounding the Pope on May 13 of that year in St. Peter's Square, was working for Bulgarian agents and, by implication, the Soviet Union. The ten-month trial of Agca's alleged accomplices--and of Agca himself...
...street people, these are things we take for granted. There is not much we can do about them. Who knows what this man meant by asking me to have a drink with him? Maybe he wanted to thank me for getting the policeman to leave him alone. My outburst of hatred might have scared him as much...
...violent outburst was a sobering reminder of the potentially volatile problems that Mubarak faces. Over the past 4 1/2 years, he has enjoyed moderate success with his foreign policy initiatives, most notably raising Egypt's status in the Arab world, which had shunned the country after Sadat signed the 1979 peace treaty with Israel. But he has been less successful at home. Egypt's already shaky economy continues to suffer setbacks. Even before hotels were attacked last week, the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro last October and other terrorist incidents in the region had caused a severe drop...