Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warned by the rumble of approaching motors (and probably by espionage reports), Nazi anti-aircraft men, crouched beside their guns, had no targets until the British raiders burst from the overcast in a driving rainstorm. Out of formation peeled the raiders. Down they dropped in screaming power dives, slamming heavy bombs at some of the juiciest bombing targets in Germany: men-of-war and vital establishments in docks, fuel storage, ammunition supply...
...cheap; even a small bomber could carry and release a great many. The casing was criss-crossed with grooves like a bar of chocolate so that a 10-pound bomb would fly into 800 small, jagged fragments of uniform shape. Many of the fragments fly out horizontally, giving the burst an effect like the circular sweep of a machine...
...behind the times, for I have been in England for the past six months and have not been able to keep up with the changes being made in the American language. Is it now correct to added to form the past tense of the verbs put, cut, burst, and cast...
...Lady Wood, wife of Britain's Secretary of State for Air, who was to christen the ship, to clear her throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping, the band burst frantically into Rule, Britannia. Resolutely Lady Wood hurled a bottle of wine after the retreating ship, shouted her 50-word speech above a din of cries and crackling timbers, burst into tears...
...When the apparatus is attached to a balloon and sent aloft, passage of the cosmic rays through the Geiger counters will be transmitted to the men on the ground through their short-wave receiving set, will be recorded on a slender tape. Disappearance of the apparatus after the balloons burst will be no great loss, for the scientists will have on their tapes a permanent record of cosmic ray activity...