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erupted

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Croft had an instinctive knowledge of land, sensed the stresses and torsions that had first erupted it, the abrasions of wind and water. The platoon had long ceased to question any direction he took; they knew he would be right as infallibly as sun after darkness or fatigue after a long march. Norman Mailer

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it. David Axelrod

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted. Nicholas D. Kristof

My first conflict with NOW erupted in the mid-'70s when NOW chapters increasingly rejected father involvement by rejecting shared parent time as the preferred arrangement after divorce. Warren Farrell

This urge to give the North Koreans the benefit of the doubt is in marked contrast to the public fury that erupted after the killings of two South Korean schoolgirls by an American military vehicle in 2002; it was widely claimed that the Yankees murdered them callously. Brian Reynolds Myers

The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare. Megan Whalen Turner

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