Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Graham is going to "scream," and also "burst." That's good news. However, this won't create a ripple; where there is nothing, nothing can burst. An acrid stench extinguished, whose space could be used for an eighth of a bag of phosphate...
...through the winter months T. H. Brown's glass eye had functioned as well as could be expected. Last fortnight as he stepped from a well-heated house in Ranger, Tex., cold air struck his false eye, caused it to burst into a shower of pieces, pour tiny particles of glass over his face and into his one normal...
When the jury-foreman mumbled two words instead of one, Sinclair's strained face burst into a grin. He pumped his counsel's arms...
...said what I have, I feel like apologizing for making such a big splash about such a little thing, but I hope to be helpful to TIME, as well as to myself in letting out this criticism before it became so inflated in me that I blew up and burst. Thank you for your indulgence...
...evening of April 11, the two Germans and the Irishman were bending over maps and weather reports. Twice before that day the weather news had disappointed them. Also, word had come from Paris that Frenchmen were tuning up rival planes. The Germans decided, Fitzmaurice rushed from the room, burst into the Officers' Mess at Baldonnel. "Crack goes the whip, off go the horses, and round go the wheels at 5 o'clock!" he shouted. The report just received from the British Air Ministry said that almost ideal conditions might be expected as far as mid-Atlantic, though beyond...