Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend Plan was ready to burst, last week, into a nine-days' wonder...
...Capitals* (TIME, Oct. 23). Best that Dr. Townsend could yet produce in the way of names was to say that George Creel was going to try to get him an interview with President Roosevelt. In Manhattan, on his way to Washington, Mr. Creel predicted that the Plan would presently burst upon the country...
...moment later his quick laughter burst out again as the interpreter asked him how he liked this cold New England weather. "I am hoping for this Indian summer I have heard about," the interpreter translated. Most diplomatically the 1500-meter ace said that the Stadium track was "very good," and that Harvard was magnificent...
...more than a day Hauptmann was sequestered in a downtown police station while an airtight case was built against him. When newshawks smelled a story, police officials let the most sensational development in the nation's greatest criminal case burst over every front page...
...last minute burst of Swiss indignation against the Soviet Union, Swiss Chief Delegate Dr. Giuseppe Motta rehearsed how in 1918 Bolsheviks sacked the Swiss legation in Petrograd and recalled that Lenin once defined the League of Nations as "an institution of brigandage." In a fiery peroration Dr. Motta drew chaos from the gallery and handclaps from a few delegates by branding the Soviet Union as the universal betrayer of religion. "Their churches in Russia are abandoned and fall in ruins," cried Dr. Motta. ". . . Communism dissolves the family; it suppresses individual initiative; it abolishes private property. Russia is afflicted with...