Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia's Broad Street to impress convening Democrats with his slogan: "Feathers Instead of Bullets." Half-naked Mr. Hockaday next burst into the Washington office of Acting Secretary of War Woodring, where he dumped 40 Ib. of feathers to discourage warfare. When this lively eccentric tried the same thing at the Maryland State American Legion Convention at Baltimore last August, the Legionaries gave him an unmerciful beating. Since then peace-loving...
...built, mounted and operated like a machine gun except that a trigger squeeze shoots a number of frames on a 16 mm. cinema film instead of a burst of bullets. After a sham battle, the pilots can see, precisely, where shots would have gone had they been firing a real gun. If there is any argument as to who "hit" first, the question is instantly settled by the time recorded to a split second on the film. List price of a machine-gun camera...
...Johannesburg the big crowd, waiting tensely for the end of the 6,150-mi. junket, burst into cheers as the Scott-Guthrie plane slid in for a landing, winner of the $20,000 first prize in 52 hr., 56 min. The celebration was suddenly stilled by the news that Pilot Findlay and one of his companions had been killed in a crash at Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika. Capitalist Schlesinger announced that he would donate the rest of the prize money ($30,000) to the dependents of the two dead airmen...
...Spanish Army, the polyglot Foreign Legion and their tough Moorish mercenaries drove up to the city of Toledo by the back way last week, shot and stuck and butchered through Red Militia fighting like wildcats in the narrow streets with machine guns chattering on every corner, finally burst into the bloodier streets of the Old City and forced their way to its rocky heights to relieve the besieged Alcázar Fortress, the heroic West Point of Spain (TIME, Sept...
...Morale is a hard thing to define," he said. "You have all probably had the experience of being on some crew or team which beat a superior opponent simply by virtue of better spirit. We can only light the spark and hope to see it burst into flame...