Word: outburst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Georgians closest to Carter were delighted by the President's outburst. "Jimmy's had a bellyful of Ted Kennedy," said one of them. But the next day the President had cooled off and had second thoughts. He told congressional leaders that he had overreacted to Kennedy and he regretted having done so. But by then the issue had caught fire. Kennedy's own switchboard was alight with calls from all over the country, many from older people with fixed incomes who wanted to praise his stand against higher energy costs. The White House was bombarded, too, with...
...broadside, Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini vainly sought last week to dismiss as the work of outside agitators the most serious challenge yet posed to his mastery over the country. "Mysterious hands are sowing disunity. Satanic plans are under way by America and its agents," he declared. His outburst had been provoked by the disaffection of a fellow Shi'ite leader, Ayatullah Mahmoud Taleghani, who touched off a new round of violent clashes and demonstrations by withdrawing from politics as a protest against the mysterious arrests of two of his sons and a daughter-in-law by Islamic...
...matching Stuart of Martha have belonged to the Athenaeum, a private library in Boston-and, in patriotic spirit at least, to all Bostonians. So when the Athenaeum, strapped for money, recently announced the sale of the pair to Washington's National Portrait Gallery for $5 million, the outburst rivaled the shot heard round the world...
Brown had appeared unlucky at first (Navy's run came on a double that Santos-Buch caught, but which was inexcusably called a trap), but the sixth-inning outburst righted his confidence. Brownie gave up one hit and an unearned run in the last two frames, while three doubles (the Crimson had six two-baggers in the game) and a single gave the batsmen their two final runs...
...want it short and bittersweet, it was ultimately a five-goal Yale outburst in the second period which turned a 2-0 Harvard lead into a three-goal dencit. And though the Crimson would outscore the Bulldogs 3-1 in the final frame, this momentary collapse eventually took the form of a death blow...