Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that instant there was a deafening explosion. The roof and walls of the celluloid factory burst open in a cloud of fire. A hail of bricks pelted the street. Long streamers of flame whipped out of the shattered roof and flapped at the sky. A shower of burning celluloid, floating down in blazing strips and flakes, fell on the screaming mob of men, women and children for a quarter of a mile around. Those who had not been knocked senseless by the impact of the explosion, surged in terror to the river bank, plunged into the water to quench their...
...with the Delegations of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Rumania and the Baltic states: All stood pledged to fight any move toward price raising by world monetary devaluation or inflation. Privately the German Delegates admitted that even Herr Hitler's popularity could not stand the storm which would burst should Germans, who suffered the world's worst inflation in 1923, feel they were due to suffer again...
...basic convictions are unmistakably Red. For this reason it is not too likely that "Democracy in Crisis" will replace the King James Version on the sitting-room table of the great American Boor. But those who agree with the conclusions the author has reached will feel an impulse to burst into song and shout, while even Mr. Laski's conscious opponents cannot avoid being impressed by the relentless argument he builds up, point by point, with more than his usual power of analysis and expression...
...know where Sherwood was. Would Collector Duggan "play ball" with the American? He would. A rendezvous with Sherwood and his lawyers was arranged in a Hoboken saloon, where Sherwood was safe from a New York contempt-of-court citation (and $50,000 fine). Next morning the American burst out with the neatest, most spectacular scoop that Manhattan had seen in a long time...
...dropped quietly off the point of his chin. He was suddenly overwhelmed with an infinite loneliness, space rolled away from him in vast undulating planes of smoke and he seemed to be lifted in a cradle of other bearing him up and up until he thought he would burst. Far below him he saw his friends pouring Scotch into opaque glasses and sometimes just pouring Scotch. He saw himself standing alone on a great platform in a black gown and a mortar board. There was no one about. No crowds, no mothers, no girls, nothing...