Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, D.C., hundreds of people closed off rooms to save oil and got burst water pipes for their pains. One was North...
...Moscow that a strongly fortified city can be held as a strong point against attack by mechanized forces. Stalin chose to make Stalingrad another such point. While Germans and Russians were booting each other to death in the bomb-pocked streets, Stalin was organizing the winter offensive which burst into the Don basin with the fury of the snowstorms that accompanied...
...Further, it accounts for the energy of all the stars except the relatively cool "red giants." A star, in keeping with Bethe's theories on the sun, apparently gets hotter and brighter, "behaves very foolishly" toward the end, uses up the last of its fuel supply in a burst of glory and a "brilliant death...
...nearly half an hour the battle raged, two raiders against one freighter. Heavily outgunned, the merchantman made every shell count. Ensign Willett saw the stern of the smaller raider burst into flame. Then a shell blew up the merchantman's main boiler, reduced her speed to one knot. A few seconds later another shell hit the magazine...
...sneezing in Oberlin's lushly pollenized air (count: 80 - sneezing begins at 15). After a few days all except two felt fine. An asthma invalid became "astonishingly vigorous and healthy after one week." (But asthmatics sometimes improve on sugar pills - sometimes their illness is largely mental.) In a burst of bravery, sufferer No. 25, who had previously taken no vitamin C at all, took a 1,000-mg. dose. Next day he experienced "great relief...