Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a two-day breathing spell in the White House, President Hoover set forth again, this time for Boston. Arriving in the morning he went to the arena where the American Legion was convening. As he entered, the Iowa delegation burst forth...
...Herr Hitler had spoken as he did in the sanctum sanctorum of German justice at Leipzig, into what inflammatory bombast might he not burst when the new Reichstag convenes on Oct. 16 next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
...Walsh, its secretary A. Sidney Lynch, and naming their successors. At 4 a. m. friends of Messrs. Walsh & Lynch burst into Dean Cross's bedroom. He confronted them in a suit of wrinkled blue pajamas. Roughly they told him he could "go to hell" with his dictation to the State Committee. In equally strong language he reiterated his determination to make a fresh start in the party's organization. In that first serious political encounter of his life, Dean Cross proved his mettle, forced his opponents after much wrangling to yield...
Colonel Rusteika, head of the Lithuanian secret political police, lay on his bed at Kovno last week snoring soundly. Two young students burst into his bedroom, shot him in the head, stabbed him in the body. Colonel Rusteika is corporeally tough. He did not die. The students were captured. Their confession led straight to the most interesting man in Lithuania, Augustine Waldemaras, Prime Minister-Dictator of Lithuania from...
...assassination is common; etc., etc. (TIME, March 11, et seq.). One night last week Editor Pacheco found himself in a position to write no more. A curtained automobile stopped in front of his home in Cerro (Havana suburb). Editor Pacheco was standing on the sidewalk. Out of the automobile burst a stream of fire and bullets, nine of which tore through Editor Pacheco's middle...