Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burst with pride at the latest achievement of laborious German scholarship, secretaries of the Berlin Foreign Office last week called in correspondents of all nations to inspect a 100,000-word White Book titled Documentary pre-History of War. Published simultaneously in twelve languages, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's rebuttal to Lord Halifax consists of 482 documents adduced to prove the complete war guiltlessness of Nazi Germany...
...plans no reform legislation at Session III of the 76th Congress, will actively support none. He has dumped taxes in the Congressional lap; almost daily pinches budget appropriations for New Deal agencies, slashes down works, relief, spending ideas. His hope: a short, sweet session that will end in a burst of party harmony...
...unbending, difficult in his personal relations, vulnerable to attack, sensitive to slights, losing votes by his stiffness as fast as he won them by his integrity and intelligence, he remained the symbol of Republicanism-just as he had been the symbol of its defeat when the pent-up storm burst on his head in 1932. Left-wing Republicans looked on him as The Man Who Came to Dinner-when slights did not work, they tried to make him an Elder Statesman; when he still refused to go away, they agreed hastily that he was the ablest U. S. Republican, while...
Composer Walton, one of the smart devotees of arty London Poetess Edith Sitwell, started out in the early 19205 doing clever satirical fluff. But when, in 1931, he burst from her mother-of-pearly cell with a fire-belching oratorio called Belshazzar's Feast, the international musical world sat up and took notice. His First Symphony, which followed, got him talked about in terms of Finland's Jean Sibelius...
...Germany wins, she will emerge from the war too exhausted to dream of an armed conflict against us. ... She will have . . . vast colonies . . . Comrades, war must burst out between Germany and the Anglo-French bloc! . , . We must accept the pact proposed by Germany and work to prolong the war the maximum possible...