Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made of two parts of wheat and one of rye. It is cooked whole without grinding. The grain is just as it comes from the field and is put in a double boiler and cooked until the kernels of wheat burst open. This sometimes takes four or five hours. " 'We cook up a batch of it, put it in the ice chest and get some out and warm it up each morning. I suppose it will last for a week or ten days without getting sour.' " Interrogated as to whether they might add Coolidge Porridge to their line...
...Manhattan newspapers one morning last week burst a story romantic, unconfirmed, yet weighted with authoritative detail: potent Pan American Airways, Inc. was negotiating with Great Britain's Imperial Airways, Ltd. to form a three-day transatlantic air service via Bermuda and the Azores...
...comparative quiet of noon-hour one day last week in the mining village of Millfield, Ohio, a great rumbling and roar burst skyward. Suddenly the place swarmed with running human beings who converged on a wooden shed covering the shaft of Sunday Creek Coal Co.'s mine No. 6. Men, women & children hurried, hurried, their faces set, their eyes wide with foreknowledge that what every miner fears had happened. As they raced to the shaft-head, the earth shook beneath their feet again-another murderous, man-trapping, mind-shattering explosion. The racers were friends & relatives...
...Nicholas: black, belted tunics, dark blue breeches with a single scarlet stripe, high black boots. Then fast as a flying beetle came Jaroff. He flashed one shining smile which seemed to include everyone from parquet to gallery, then turned, crouched, lifted his little elbows and brought forth an amazing burst of sound...
Near the station unruly exuberant crowds burst through the triple line of guards, stormed the royal coach in an effort to touch Tsaritza Ivana's gown...