Word: sputters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first day, 250 city blocks were incinerated. Not until the third day did the last of the fires sputter down. By then 514 city blocks (4.1 sq. mi.) had gone, 28,188 buildings, including the homes of 250,000. Libraries, theaters, restaurants, courts, jails, the financial district, South of Market, the fabulous Palace -- all gone. North of Market, little remained of Chinatown but a labyrinth of underground chambers once home to brothels and opium dens. About 2,500 had died...
...Omaha debate was whether the 41-year-old Senator from Indiana had the intellect, temperament and judgment necessary to move into the presidency. Three times Quayle was thrown off balance when asked what he would do if he had to take over from George Bush. Quayle could only sputter bland inanities before falling back on his script about his congressional accomplishments. On his third try, he compared the length of his experience with that of John Kennedy in 1960. It proved a fatal flirtation with one of America's most enduring myths. With precision and rhetorical balance, Bentsen uttered four...
...folk freak. John Denver does not make my heart go `sputter, sputter,'" Woods says. She prefers the term "people music...
...past couple of weeks, the nation has watched itself roll toward ruin because people were losing their money in bales. If one were tasteless enough to ask a big loser what exactly he was losing, he would sputter, incredulous, "What am I losing? My boat! My car! My home, my beautiful home! My children's educations! Expensive schools! My clothes! My dinner! My dollars!" All true, every sorrowful word. People have been mourning the passing of their money for all the things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure cancers...
Less than 48 hours later, all public demonstrations were banned in Peking, as they had been a few days earlier in Shanghai. With that, the engine of student unrest began to sputter, though at week's end thousands of students took to the streets of Nanjing to protest the government actions. The ongoing demonstrations presented the government with one of its toughest political tests in recent years. The question: Could the Deng regime keep its promise to tolerate the dissent and open debate that seemed to go hand in hand with its free-market economic policies? The answer: a resounding...