Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union of South Africa and, during the long-brewing international crises between Czechoslovakia and Germany, cagey Premier James Barry Munnick Hertzog has refused to commit himself for or against the Nazis. But last week, as events in Europe rolled toward war, the Premier indulged in a sudden burst of loyalty to the Mother Country, personally took to the Assembly floor to oppose a pro-Nazi deputy's motion that South Africa refuse to support Britain if war comes. 'T am still very confident that there will be no war," said the Premier. "No country has the right...
...running toward a medium-sized bomb when it burst. My mouth was open and the shock was so violent that I was unable to breathe for some seconds, and indeed thought that my throat had been torn away, and that I had only another half-minute or so to live. I did not notice that I had been wounded until I felt that my throat was intact, and managed to start breathing again...
Schwaderbach- On Thursday, while Mr. Chamberlain was in the air, Sudeten German violence burst out on a much larger scale. Storm Troops besieged, captured police headquarters in the border town of Schwaderbach, opened the frontier to Germany, and marshaled such a heavy show of armed force that fresh forces of gendarmes who arrived were ordered by Dr. Benes from Prague to hold their ground around the town but not attack, lest the scale of operations amount to "warfare...
Leon Trotsky, cooped up in his Mexico City refuge and pledged to silence on matters affecting Mexico, almost burst with anxiety at all these developments last week. What the Great Exile was thinking was meanwhile mirrored by his landlord, Diego Rivera, who took time out from painting a mural for a Pittsburgh capitalist to issue awful warnings: "Lombardo Toledano has closely intertwined his fate with that of the Soviet oligarchy in the Kremlin. From there he receives instructions and all kinds of aid. For Moscow it is a question of transforming the workers' organizations of all America into...
...poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife. What Poet Service did not mention, said Mr. Mahoney last week, was that the "lady called Lou" was also shot. She recovered, he said, and was two years ago reported living quietly in Prince Rupert...