Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropping of Mr. Thomas meant the picking up of someone else. This someone's feathery little black moustache fairly quivered with excitement. When his election was announced the Conference burst into cheers and loud guffaws for Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley...
...pulses, partly exposed-like a red brown overcrusted cushion filling and deflating in frantic recurrence. . . . His head is a black lump with bloodstreams trickling down. His skin hangs in ribbons; it is scorched and smells of burning. . . . Thus they lie, rows of them, on hay, on mattresses-ravaged entrails, burst bladders, shattered lungs, lacerated throats, iron-studded skulls-the irretrievable ones. . . . Let it not be thought that these are just isolated horrors, sensational but only occasional instances of pain and suffering, and not essentially significant. These examples represent but a shabby trickle. Taken in its entirety all was far worse...
Arbiter & Wit. At about this time Lord Birkenhead delivered his memorable knife thrust at the late Viscount Younger of Leckie (then Sir George Younger) who fancied himself for the Prime Ministry. "Since the day when the proverbial frog swelled itself up in rivalry with the bull until it burst," he said in part, "no frog ever has been in such grave physical danger as Sir George Younger." Of the Bonar Law Cabinet in 1923 Lord Birkenhead said: "They remind me of the Duke of Wellington's observation upon his generals: 'I don't know whether they will frighten the enemy...
...Saved!": "In our usual blunt, precise Fascist style, without euphemism and without reticence, we admit," said Il Duce, "that our general economic situation has grown worse since last October, when the American crisis burst with the violence of dynamite...
...half years ago Parliament, hoping that England would rule the winds as she ruled the waves, heard a Cassandra hoot: "The R-33 flew 800 hours and burst. The R-34, which flew across the Atlantic, afterward burst. The R-35 burst when inflated. The R-36 flew 397 hours and burst. The R-37 was never completed. The R-38 flew seventy hours and burst over Hull in August 1921, with a heavy loss of life. The R39 was unfinished. The R-40 flew seventy-three hours and burst." Those airships had cost England $12,000,000, had flown...