Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being to take pot shots from housetops, destroy Jewish property whenever possible, then hustle off to bury their rifles in the ground behind their houses before British patrols could find them. British company commanders issued an order: Every shot from a hidden Arab sniper must be answered with a burst of 50 shots from an automatic rifle...
...politics to a bewilderingly opportunistic role. Their accent is on a half-baked immediate program." First excitement in the divided convention came when the Right delegation from New York appeared on the floor to claim seats already occupied by the Left delegation. A sergeant-at-arms stopped them. Pandemonium burst. Rightist leaders from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut began to shout together at this physical attempt to exclude their comrades from New York. Norman Thomas finally brought temporary peace by saying: "Mr. Chairman-since there doesn't seem to be enough room on the floor for the 'Old Guard...
Cora Walles bobbed up at a blazing window, crumpled in a hail of machine-gun bullets. Moment later the roof collapsed and William Walles ran squealing to the porch. A burst of bullets toppled him back into the fire...
...April 20, the day before the Budget," testified Mr. Marriott last week, "Waterton burst into my office and told me there was going to be an increase in the income tax. Waterton said he heard it from Eves. . . . Eves got it from a great friend...
...Frederic Jani, who had told the woman she would probably have twins, put her under an anesthetic, worked over her for two and a half hours. When, upon waking. Mrs. Kasper was informed she had given birth to three boys and a girl, each weighing about three pounds, she burst into tears. Dr. Jani popped two of the quadruplets into incubators, sent out for two more, ordered that the infants be fed glucose water and two drops of good rye whiskey every two hours. Said he later: ''There was great excitement. . . . There was almost a panic." The newcomers...