Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lightly as a box of matches, Golden Miller passed Delaneige and the four of them took the last fence together. Delaneige landed ahead of the others but 50 yd. past the jump, Golden Miller caught him again. Delaneige faltered in his stride, and Golden Miller, with a burst of speed, won the race, at odds of 8 to 1, by five good lengths. Thomond II was third and Forbra fourth, with six others, from the field of 30, plunging slowly in behind them. For the hardest steeplechase in the world, the turf on Aintree's 4½ mile brush...
...minutes later a wild-eyed truck-driver burst into the Lambda Chi kitchen. ''Where's the furnace?" he cried. A startled chef pointed to the cellar door. The truckman clattered down the steps, dived for the furnace, switched it off. Not until then did he draw breath to explain that by mistake he had filled the tank not with fuel oil but with gasoline. All that saved the Lambda Chi house from destruction were a few inches of oil left in the tank, which fed from the bottom. The gasoline was just about to drain into...
Four Byrdmen tossed fire bombs into the flames while the doctor rescued his kit. The fire died. Dr. Potaka stretched Cameraman Pelter on a table, sliced out his appendix. Badly inflamed, it would have burst by afternoon. A long convalescence was ahead of Joseph Pelter. No matter how warm the patient is kept, said Dr. Potaka, a wound heals slowly in frigid Antartica...
...first course of her latest table d'hote, Anitra's Dance. Many a reader whose appetite rejoices in hearty fare tucked in his napkin, smacked his lips and fell to with a will. His nose immediately told him that here was another full-fleshed Hurstwurst, stuffed to bursting point, garnished with garlic, well-lapped in rich gravy. Critics of Fannie Hurst call her the most violent of domesticated female writers, say that her characters are not only stuffed but vulgar nonsense, that their actions are like the sputtering of a string of sausages in a frying...
Tuesday's session unearthed numerous accounts of official pilfering of inmates' bank accounts and insurance policies, activities thoroughly familiar to John Curry's boys, but which are doubly criminal when practiced on helpless invalids. The bombshell burst in Wednesday's meeting when various attendants related to the Committee a series of incidents in the happy round of their daily chores. One inmate was forced to remain in a chair for three days with a set of broken ribs before she was treated. Another woman was struck down by an attendant and is now in Bellevue Hospital. A woman...