Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trotting behind a murderous Japanese barrage the Imperial troops entered Shanhaikwan's dragon-crested South Gate. Firing from cover Chinese riflemen drove them back once, twice. Next artillery battered breaches in the walls, Japanese troops burst through, fought bayonet-to-bayonet with desperate Chinese among the low mud huts of Shanhaikwan's narrow, winding streets. Hurtling from the sky Japanese bombs set the city afire, rained death among soldiers and civilians alike. Japanese gunners, when they finally got the range, concentrated on Shanhaikwan's famed Drum Tower which has sounded, warnings for centuries, sent it crashing down...
...drives like mad. But Tibbett has cultivated no lofty conceits, no temperamental whimsies. He refused the private dining room which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him in Hollywood. He still thinks, and says, that singing is "just about the best fun that the human animal can have." He will still burst into song on the street or in restaurants, and he is not too proud to sing "Casey Jones" or "Frankie and Johnny...
...shutter was said to be operated by the first pull of the gun trigger. In normal combat practice a pilot would fire a burst from his gun to make sure it was in working order long before approaching as close to an enemy plane as the pictures indicated...
...first three decades of the century the upward trend of automobile production continued at a staggering tempo. Its momentum was only slightly retarded by the deflation of 1921 and its renewed burst of vigor in 1922 speedily regenerated business throughout the land. Each successive year of growth heightened the American Standard of Living and added to the nation's wealth. Cross sections of that upswing showed...
...witnesses. Once when Lincoln, tired out, had allowed himself to be dragged to an unimportant mass meeting on the understanding that he was not to be called on for a speech, the crowd insisted; Lincoln gave a brief, uninspired talk. Afterwards, in front of a friend, Mrs. Lincoln burst out: "That was the worst speech I ever listened to in my life. How any man could get up and deliver such remarks to an audience is more than I can understand. I wanted the earth to sink and let me go through." The brain disease to which Biographer Sandburg attributes...