Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...galleries wahooed. The stand-pattingest of the standpatters smiled indulgently. At one burst of applause, the young man bowed deeply and said: "It is so unusual for a Republican from Wisconsin to receive applause at a National Republican Convention that I thank you most sincerely." Then, lest politeness detract from potency, he asked that the remark be stricken from the record. But everyone remembered the politeness and before the young man left the platform he had cause to take more bows, hand over heart, actor-fashion. Everyone enjoyed it and the thunderous "No" that soon buried the Minority Platform...
Unimpressed by the new importance of the Beaver Man, enemy of floods, angry rivers burst dykes, fell upon Arkansas and Missouri farmers. Hundreds scurried to the safety of high hills, driving kin and kine before them. In their wake came the flood waters of the White River, deluging 40,000 acres in Arkansas. Missourians fought the rising St. Francis, already claiming 25,000 acres, with the crest yet to come. Mississippi valley dwellers remembered 1927, wondered if the Beaver Man would help...
With the tide against them and the water unfavorably rought, the oarsmen settled down after the opening burst of speed to a beat of 30 which was maintained up to the three mile mark. From this point on, Captain John Watts '28 lifted the stroke to 35, quickening it gradually to 38, and as the shell neared the finish to a fast sprinting...
Climbing into his little car he touched off a rocket. There was a ten-foot spurt of flame, a burst of yellow smoke, a loud report and the car whizzed away down the track. Within two seconds it was going 100 kilometres per hour (62.1 m. p. h.). Then there came fresh bursts of flame, smoke, and noise as Herr von Opel exploded more rockets. At each explosion the car lunged ahead in a fresh spurt. Its speed mounted to 125 m. p. h. When his rockets were all gone, Herr von Opel coasted to a standstill...
...deadlock in the fourth period was followed by a long scoring drive from Captain. R. B. Burnett ocC, in the fifth. Then came a burst of speed from the Yale riders, who tallied twice off the mallets of O. M. Wallop and Captain F. C. Baldwin. In the final chukker, Yale tied the count and then drove home the winning goal, Wallop and Baldwin again being responsible for the scores. No substitutions were made throughout the game...