Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swept on out of town, barricaded the road with uprooted telephone poles, tore down the bridge at Camden Park and separated the Leeward and Windward sides of the island. Grocery stores, plantations and homes, including those of Judge Williams and Attorney General Ross, were looted. In Kingstown, a burst of rifle fire from the police killed three natives, wounded eight. Next morning into the harbor steamed H. M. S. Challenger, and in a jiffy a landing party of Royal Marines were over the side and in the streets, ended the riot...
...felt the chill of approaching winter, the earth shivered last week from Yellowstone Park to Spokane. At Helena, Mont., snuggled under the eastern wall of the Rockies and at the foot of the Continental Divide, the ground trembled as with palsy. In ten days, 327 shocks of varying potency burst store windows, extinguished lights, crumpled a wall of Intermountain Union College's gymnasium, destroyed a National Biscuit warehouse, put to flight 150 bedridden patients in the Government's hospital at nearby Fort Harrison. When two people were killed, more than 40 injured, the population fled in a panic...
First lead: "The bitterness against France for its pro-Italian leanings threatened to burst all bounds in London today, while tension in the Mediterranean grew worse every hour...
...Paris, but Sacha stayed overlong reading a new play, was late, lost his wig and appeared on the stage half in costume, out of breath, his helmet dropping down over his eyes and ears. As Helen's welcoming words were, "Here comes my beautiful Paris!" the cast burst into laughter, began to ad lib, until the audience stamped in unison. Quarreling with his father, Sacha ran away. He appeared in a comedy in the provinces, lost his mustachios, forgot his lines, and in a desperate attempt to rewin his audience leaned too far out the window...
...terrific burst of activity that put the Board of Trade on the front page for the first time in months, Chicago wheat soared 4¢ per bu. in one day to the magic figure $1. Dollar wheat has appeared several times since the New Deal but, because U. S. markets are insulated by a high tariff against outside factors, world prices lagged far behind. Winnipeg prices have also been artificially high, due to the stabilization efforts of the Canadian Grain Board. Lacking the stability provided by huge storage facilities. Buenos Aires is erratic. From its year's low Argentine wheat...