Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paving stones whistled. Brickbats flew. As throwers improved their aim, window after window of the Colonial Building splintered into tinkling bits. Lady Squires, the Premier's wife and Newfoundland's only female Parliament member, was deeply gashed, was led bleeding from the hall. The mob burst in through the Strangers' Gallery, seized all entrances and set up shouts of "Squires! Squires! Hang him! Throw him in the harbor! Where's Squires...
...armful in the street. Solemn, impassioned promises by highly respected citizens that Premier Sir Richard Squires would positively resign or call a Newfoundland election within 48 hours finally got the smashers out of the building. But they rushed directly to two of St. John's State liquor stores, burst them open, stole every bottle and spent a night of bemused swizzling during which nobody was injured...
...burst of enthusiasm sparse, spry Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee; confessed to his good friend Director Juliana Force of the Whitney Museum several months ago, "I feel as though my life was starting all over again." Critics who went to his exhibition at the Macbeth Gallerys last week knew what he meant. Wrote the New York Times...
...grease. As the day wore on a strange murmur like far off breakers on a distant beach began in the St. Antoine to break the sullen quietude. Travelling slowly along the crooked streets it gathered volume always nearer, always louder. At last with a great roar it burst out around the high walls of the Bastille and the Revolution had begun. The Paris mob broke up running, shouting, shrieking, calling, hurling, swearing, beating, advancing, swarming; but always moving, always attacking, always increasing. They stormed the deep ditch, the double draw bridge, the eight great towers amid cannon, musket fire...
Next day the Japanese Foreign Office learned that Statesman Stimson had absolutely refused to recognize the puppet régime Japan has set up in Manchuria. Hotly the Foreign Office's press spokesman burst out: "The United States cannot rob us of the fruits of our victory by withholding recognition of the new Manchurian State...