Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hair shoulder length and behind her ears. Her friends call her "Kit." She is precious in the care of her voice, does not like to talk before a performance. Before and after all, she is an actress. She is intelligent, not intellectual. "To act." says she. "you have to burst out spontaneously and feel constantly and deeply. So if you're too accustomed to using your head instead of your feelings you won't be able to call on your feelings when you want them. I tell young women not to come on the stage, unless there is nothing else...
This drew cheers and a burst of hand-claps-ordinarily banned in the Assembly. Even louder applause rang out when Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, said. "Is the League aware that this is a great test case which will establish precedents for future disputes? . . . Any policy of compromise as regards principles will lead to failure and ultimate death for the League...
Officers shouldered their way through the crowd explaining what had happened: on the inlet tube for cooling the turbogenerators with sea water, a 40-lb. mushroom-shaped valve, made of cast iron instead of brass, had jammed, finally burst. A solid jet of water nearly a foot in diameter poured into the hold. The ship was made to list purposely to keep the broken valve near the surface. Over & over the officers repeated there was no danger...
Until the incident of the burst valve, chief topic of conversation on the Conte di Savoid was her $1,000,000 worth of Sperry gyroscopes, installed to keep the ship from rolling. To spite a lifeboat load of admirals, engineers, and college technicians who crossed on the Conte di Savoia to observe their gyro-stabilizers' action, seas remained resolutely calm, and the gyros had no fair test. One day, to show what they could do, the stabilizers were purposely reversed, rocked the ship 10°. Apart from stability, speed is the great feature of the Conte di Savoia...
...Migraine Feels. The brain feels as though a hammer were pounding on the skull, or as though a drill were grinding into the bone. Or an iron hoop seems to tighten around the head. Or the bones of the skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight...