Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zero hour 150,000 words of controversy were dumped upon the public. Vitriolic bomb shells of recrimination burst in the camps of Johnson and Darrow while Sinclair's trench mortar added to the loud discord. By and large the U. S. took the bombardment without flinching...
...daybreak the White Star liner Olympic, 23-year-old sister ship of the Titanic, picked up faintly the signal of No. 117, set a course for it. Almost seven hours later a horrified shout burst from a lookout. Bells jangled, the four giant screws threshed madly in reverse, seamen rushed to man lifeboats. Carried helplessly forward by its own momentum, the 46,000-ton liner crunched into the little lightship, cut it in two. Four of the lightship's crew of eleven were never found, and three died after being picked up by the Olympic's lifeboats...
...firm virtually outfitted the gold rush of '49. John Hazard Browning, descendant of a Rhode Island settler who bought a "dwelling house and two lots of acres . . . for ?3 in wampum" had been in the clothing business 27 years when news of gold at Suiter's Mill burst upon New York. He packed clipper ships with pants and coats as fast as they could be sewed together, sent them around the Horn to be traded for gold nuggets on the Coast...
...naive civilian would he quite wrong. Bombs did not burst at Briey: He where near Briey did more than a few shells from either side fall during the entire course of the war. There were even line officers who shared civilian naivete enough to question Fernch G. H. Q. on the immunity of Briey. A reasonable explanation could have been that the French were withholding, fire from Briey because they, in turn, hoped to recapture the basin and turn its products back to France...
...Business Men is quite simple: the killing is their business. Armaments are their stock in trade; governments are their customers; the ultimate consumers of their products are, historically, almost as often their compatriots as their enemies. That does not matter. The important point is that every time a burst shell fragment finds its way into the brain, the heart, or the intestines of a man in the front line, a great part of the $25,000, much of it profit, finds its way into the pocket of the armament maker...