Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared with quarter and half-page advertisements flaunting largely the company's new slogan: "The Fleet is All Lit Up!" And in small type below the explanation: "They're smoking Grey's cigarets." Abashed Commander Woodrooffe explained: "I was so overcome by the occasion that I burst into tears and found I could say no more." To be sure that announcers would not be overcome with emotion on public occasions, the B. B. C. announced last week that henceforth announcers of great events would travel in pairs, might have physical examinations...
...with the cool skies rapidly clouding over, the first admirals' barges began to arrive for an official reception, and as more cocked hats and gold lace than Portsmouth harbor had seen for two decades assembled under the yacht's awning the Royal Marines Band burst into Irving Berlin's well-known ballad...
...resentment of Catholic Germans burst out as far as it dared. Catholic attorneys, while admitting that isolated instances of immorality existed, protested that many of the accused had already been punished by the Church, that the Government was using evidence picked up during earlier proceedings against monks and nuns accused of violating money transfer restrictions...
...last notes of a last Harvard song sweep out over the mass of pelicans, and with Yard cops bating their breaths a herd of students burst down the steps. There are a few cries of "Rinchart", the sound of moving bodies, and edging among the audience. The guy with a girl grabs here arm and carefully threads a path towards the gate. One hand lets fall a program, announcing a selection of songs that the Harvard Glee Club will sing to a species of people whom the Vagabond will watch as they watch him, this evening at seven o'clock...
...amazing escapes of all. Cornered on a narrow catwalk when the gasbags all around him leapt into flame, young Franz jumped through the fabric, fell to earth so hard he was stunned. He would have burned to death as the blazing hulk settled upon him, but a ballast tank burst above him, drenching him with cold water which both revived him and extinguished his burning clothes. Unharmed, he groped his way to safety...