Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When Opera Midwest burst onto the music scene two years ago with a glittering production of Verdi's La Traviata, the Evanston, Ill., company was regarded as something of a musical mystery. Its general manager and financial "angel," Stephen Griffeth, had been able to conjure up a first-season budget of $400,000, a stunning amount for a group of virtual unknowns. Its star soprano was Griffeth's wife, Myra Cordell, a Northwestern University voice graduate. The music director was a former security guard who had conducted a children's choir in West Germany. Even Griffeth...
...then, with the arrival of summer and the acceleration of Carter's re-election campaign, credit controls were loosened and money became less restricted. The prime rate fell to a low of 11% in July. Yet, after November's presidential election and a new burst of inflation, the Federal Reserve Board once again tightened money, and interest rates began another steep rise, quickly passing the spring's historic interest rate records...
Such explanations carried little weight in New Delhi; the Indians share the prevailing world view that the invasion was a blatant act of Soviet aggression. Still, Brezhnev did manage to find a formula that sounded promising to his listeners. He won a brief burst of applause when he proposed to turn the Indian Ocean into a "zone of peace," though he did not explain how this might be accomplished. Nonetheless, the concept was welcome to India, which has been worried by the increased movement of U.S. vessels in the ocean and the rapid buildup of an American military and naval...
Benson's tally followed soon after and the Crimson increased its pressure in the Dartmouth zone, trying to get the equalizer. With just under six minutes to go, Tom Murray and Greg Olson, as they have all season long, burst through the opposing defenders. But Gaudet alertly skated about 15 feet out of the net, clearing the loose puck before the Crimson speedsters could...
...always odd to realize how short the collective memory is. Evidently, in times of tumblingly surreal change in the world, the human does not transmit from parent to child certain basic lore and procedural data. Knowledge that any peasant instinctively possesses now arrives at the front door in a burst of light, like revelation. A doctor who opened a free clinic for hippies in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the late '60s found that his patients were showing up with infections, sores and other maladies that medicine had not seen I since the 13th century...