Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England such a man would be a fairly good insurance risk. At Sunderland last week one Charles Edward Smith burst through a crowd, jumped on the running board of Edward of Wales's slowly moving limousine. Without display of firearms Mr. Smith was quietly arrested but released from custody when he pleaded...
...Nations, the Women's Suffrage and Child Labor amendments. However, he enjoyed small prominence as a statesman until he stumbled upon traces of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil-lease scandals. Then unheeded, he dug and plugged at the evidence from October 1923 until February 1924, burst forth with his accusations. Surprised at finding his old friend Edward L. Doheny implicated, he nevertheless faced him across the inquisitors' table, prosecuted the investigation relentlessly. Successful in exposing that Republican graft, in sending Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair to jail (TIME, May 13, 1929), he found himself a national figure...
...Parliament's name," roared the president, "I order you to burst in the gates." Oddly enough the order was obeyed. This appeared rather to disconcert the wafdists who trooped in for an uneventful session at which the royal decree dissolving Parliament was read amid dead silence...
Instantly the U. S. press burst forth in angry protest. Who was Samuel Insull to "censor" the speech of an Ambassador of the nation? How dared a public utilitarian already viewed askance for dabbling deeply in national politics (large sums towards the nomination of Senator-reject Smith of Illinois in 1926-TIME, July 26, 1926 et seq.), now project himself internationally...
...Gasoline splashed in his eyes. Out of control, the plane ground-looped, broke into pieces. In September the late Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy testflew an identical plane for Bromley. Part of the tail surfaces washed away. Fahy was severely injured. Last week Bromley's third Tacoma-Tokyo ship burst into flames over the Mojave desert, near the Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif. Testpilot M. W. Catlin was horribly burned...