Word: outburst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officer still isn't convinced. He begins to jingle his handcuffs. You start to explain away your outburst, but you find you have to go back to the beginning of the story...
Koenig was also concerned that Israeli Arabs might feel "a hope that time is working on their side." One consequence, he feared, would be "an uncontrollable outburst" of anti-Jewish violence some day. In fact, while Koenig was preparing his report last spring, six Arabs were killed by police in bloody rioting in Galilee over government expropriation of their land...
...student councils, all have had a full summer to prepare. Still, imposing this "blanket" program citywide has been somewhat like pulling an actual blanket over the sheets to make a bed. Straighten a section and a wrinkle appears there; soothe a ten-square mile district here and a minor outburst erupts there...
...fleet of "Hippo" armored personnel carriers. The police responded by hurling tear-gas canisters, then opened fire on the moving crowd, and the marchers panicked. This time, as it turned out, the police were evidently trying to avoid heavy casualties, because only two people were killed in the outburst. The march was effectively halted...
...weekends ago a ragtag line of some 150 blacks and whites, members of an obscure group called the Martin Luther King Jr. Movement, decided to challenge the discriminatory patterns in the Marquette Park area. Their tiny demonstration brought Chicago to the brink of its worst racial outburst in ten years...