Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the [Zetkin] speech was over the galleries burst into wild applause that was not a political demonstration but a tribute to the purely physical courage of the old revolutionary...
...father and father-in-law told them to do." A swarm of gulled depositors and investors, expecting a stiffer sentence, muttered sullenly: "It's a shame, it's a shame.'' They had often booed and heckled Banker Bain while he was giving testimony. Once he burst into tears...
...handed to her. "Simply and Plainly." President Hoover was given a nine-minute ovation by his enthusiastic followers. Thereafter their applause constantly interrupted his speech. Sometimes it was real and spontaneous after he had worked up to a major point. More often it was ill-timed and artificial, a burst of irrational sound after a minor sentence. Leaders of the platform claque were observed to be National Chairman Sanders, Senator Moses, Representative Snell. Their insistent clapping and cheering gave a jerky, disconnected effect to the 7,000-word speech over which President Hoover had worked for weeks. "In accepting...
Police Captain Carlos Garcia with three lieutenants and a squad of patrolmen burst into a Havana house when informed by a mysterious telephone call that Communists were holding a meeting there...
...trumpeters on a turret above the stadium blew a loud salute. Outside the stadium, a field gun went off ten times. From an urn over the main gate of the stadium there was a burst of flame, pale in the bright afternoon, from the Olympic torch that will burn for 16 days...