Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frown, the French Ambassador, 48 hours later, called upon Son-in-Law and demanded verbal explanations-but only verbal, nothing in writing. Son-in-Law roared right back for 45 minutes, then announced to the world: "The Italian Royal and Imperial Government infinitely regrets this wholly irresponsible and uncontrollable burst of enthusiasm...
...Bang, Bang, Bang,-the sepoy killed all five. The rest of the battalion, believing the fierce Pathans were on the warpath, hastily took up "stand-to" positions around the camp's wall. Through the darkness they saw the sepoy running away, rifle in hand. A volley of shots burst out and the young soldier assassin dropped dead...
Public dancing, which the Father of All Turks had introduced enthusiastically as a part of his Westernization program, was canceled in Turkey on the night the President died, and nowhere could one buy raki, the anisette drink which Atatürk often guzzled for hours on end. Istanbul burst out with such a display of the red-with-white-crescent Turkish flags that although all were at half mast, they made the city look en fete instead of in grief, and the Government asked that all flags except those on public buildings be withdrawn...
Ballyhooed as "the race of the century," the magnificent bubble burst a few days before the scheduled rendezvous when Owner Howard scratched The Biscuit because of a weak knee. Disgruntled racing fans felt cheated, muttered unpleasant words about Owner Howard's weak knees. When a subsequent attempt to get the two horses on the same track at the same time failed at the last moment, popular interest subsided...
...class. But at the mile, coming into the stretch, The Admiral had not yet poked his nose in front. Jockey Kurtsinger gave him the whip. But War Admiral seemed to be standing still. It was Seabiscuit who was pulling away-one length, two lengths, three lengths-in a crazy burst of speed. Still going away when he crossed the finish line four lengths ahead, the little ex-plater set a new track record (1 min., 56 3/5 sec.) for a mile-and-three-sixteenths...