Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empress Menen, her two daughters, the 12-year-old Duke of Harar and Crown Prince Asfa Wassan. Then down the gangplank, to the mournful tweetle of the boatswain's pipe, stepped little Haile Selassie in a sun helmet and a long white cloak. The Carnaro's band burst into the Fascist anthem: Giovinezza! A British military band hurriedly sprayed the air with a brassy countermelody. With the little Emperor was his "good" son-in-law, Ras Desta Demtu, and Ras Kassa, who fought the Italians in the north. Sharp eyes could find no trace of lean Ras Nassibu...
...station platform. A strike had tied up every taxi in the Holy City, but union leaders made a concession by permitting ten cabs to transfer the Royal party from the station to the King David Hotel. A great crowd had assembled behind armed British guards at the station square, burst into roars of "Long Live Ethiopia!" "Long Live Emperor Haile Selassie!" Big tears rolled down the little man's dusky cheeks...
Shunted back into the hall after the Hoover announcement, newshawks waited an hour. Out the door suddenly burst a wedge of Federal agents, who clattered down the corridor with Director Hoover shouting angrily at photographers, "No pictures, no pictures!" Outside, agents threw manacled, coatless Alvin Karpis into a huge red automobile, went roaring off for Shushan airport. Next morning...
...ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled off to jail in San Francisco, indicted for murder. Psychiatrists examined him, ad judged him insane. To police Peter Voiss burst out: "To the crazy house I will not go. It's as if a boy passed you and threw a rock, then passed again and threw an other and another...
Next day the room was roped off and four assistants went over everything with radium counters, recovered most of the burst tube's contents. Meanwhile the two victims took repeated blood tests. Said Chairman Joseph Raycroft of the Health Department: "We cannot state now just what danger Professor Ladenburg and Mr. Van Voorhis...