Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First men to see the "wild man" were Ernest Blanchard and Leslie Turner, two trappers, when he burst from the woods and started shooting at them. Whether the towering, dusky creature was an insane nature-lover bent on saving the lives of animals, like mad Albert Johnson who was killed in the wilds of Canada last month (TIME, Feb. 29), Woodsmen Blanchard and Turner did not stop to inquire. They fled through the woods and reported to the State police at Long Lake. A lieutenant with four of his men and two forest wardens, accompanied by the trappers...
...ribbon that would open Sydney's "Dream of the Century." Royal Air Force planes were buzzing high above, prepared to dive under the arch at the historic moment. Massed below the bridge was a fleet of 150 motorboats. A salute of 21 guns had begun, a band had burst into "Advance, Australia Fair!" and six-foot Premier Lang was advancing with his shiny pair of scissors-when suddenly a man on a horse spurred forward from the ranks of mounted police brandishing a sword...
...once gone on record in favor of Prohibition, most of them lack courage to recognize the inevitable, and they take comfort in the hope that economic issues will over-shadow all others in the coming elections. Possibly the more realistic among them, hearing the applause for the wets which burst from the gallery, felt a less purblind confidence in the issue. The hedgers and straddlers of a dead decade are now once more on the fence, in a different sense. More than a graceful literary allusion lurked in the cry which was heard during the voting: "The Ides of March...
...wanted to, gathered on a Detroit street corner. Quietly they began marching to the River Rouge plant to ask for jobs. At the Dearborn city line their number had doubled, their quietude had yielded to aggressiveness. Fifty Dearborn police tried to turn them back. Out from the mob burst a woman, crying: "Come on, you cowards!" Police went down under a fire of bricks, stones, clubs. Firemen and Detroit police hurried to their aid with tear gas bombs and high pressure hoses. On to the factory gate pressed the mob. There it was met by two volleys of high-aimed...
...attached to the Chinese Red Cross, one day last week tried to visit her husband who teaches school in a Shanghai suburb. Japanese bombers roared overhead. Frightened, she ran, thought of hiding behind an automobile, changed her mind, jumped behind a tree. The automobile was blown to bits. Bombs burst all around her, buried her in debris. Two coats and a sweater protected her from serious injury...