Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huns stood before the city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected the sanctuary of Christian churches, did not fire Rome's noble buildings. But when their booty-laden...
...desert dust. Through oases in Turkestan, over one of the master roads of history, wound caravans and pack trains that linked the West and East. To Europe went silks from the Orient; to China came furs, jade and treasured goods from lands beyond the Wall. From these lands burst out great nomad hordes (Huns, Mongols, Turks) that time & again had devastated both civilized Europe and the capitals of China...
Lieut, (j.g.) C. K. Hildebrandt dived on one of six Zeros closing in on another Hellcat, gave the enemy ship a burst and saw it roll over on its back, smoking...
...morning last week the cloud cover over northwest Germany thundered. Over the port of Emden a "pathfinder" squadron of Fortresses eased down from the overcast, planted incendiaries. Flames burst from Emden's factories, clocks, submarine repair shops...
Normal Happiness. Few devout men managed to combine orthodoxy with gusto so successfully as Chesterton. When T. S. Eliot wrote: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper," Chesterton burst out: "I'm damned if I ever felt like that." He resented the suggestion that modern life had been made as dull as ditchwater: "And, by the way, is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun." But to apostles of progress he remarked: "We sometimes tend to overlook the quiet and even bashful presence...