Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was true, even making the allowance that "policy" and "action"' are two different things. Action by British Labor spent itself last week in a sudden burst of strongly suppressed riots. But the policy of British Labor turned historically toward revolution in Leicester, a rusty old red brick English city on the Soar (into which upright Leicesterians hurled the corpse of detested King Richard III). In 1841 Leicester gave birth to Thomas Cook's first "Cook's Tour"-from Leicester to Loughborough (some 10 mi.) and back. Today Leicester busies herself chiefly in making women...
...with many a master mariner on a foundering ship, it was then too late for Pilot Gully to save himself. Still struggling with his plane, he crashed before he could cut the ignition switches. The ship burst into flames, incinerated Pilot Gully with his hands still gripping the controls...
...arose upon the Senate floor and denounced Halsey, Stuart's financing of Washington real estate in a burst of oratory, bellowing: "In all the ages the tyrant, political, industrial or financial has been the one to suffer the guillotine; and I now warn the Halsey Stuarts, the Dohertys-I warn them all that their power to rob must cease." This attack was centred upon the Wardman Real Estate Properties Inc. holding company for $28,000,000 worth of apartment houses, office buildings and hotels, including famed Wardman Park Hotel...
Crowds standing in the square before the high porticoed Generalidad burst into El Segredores, the once proscribed Catalonian anthem, roared loudest at the verse about cutting off the heads of the proud Castilians. Manuel Azana grinned good naturedly. Even the white geese in the Cathedral cloister honked their loudest...
...seated himself on the steps of the rostrum to await the end of the Statesman's oration. The Vagabond's chief interest is in men, not things, and he recognized in the upturned coat-collar and twinkling eye of the Great Man signs of the culprit. Then the explanation burst upon the observer, and he longed to tell of the culprit's crime...