Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novelties. Both left connoisseurs somewhat frigid. The first, Aleko, a hodgepodge of good-natured Slavic confusion, told the story of a youth who died of unrequited love for a gypsy. The second, and more elaborate, was Don Domingo, a Mexican extravaganza. Three months ago Choreographer Massine in a burst of good-neighborliness gave Don Domingo to the Mexican public. The Mexican public promptly tossed it back to Choreographer Massine amid loud critical catcalls. The Manhattan critics did the same. Don Domingo proved chiefly that the Ballet Russe's Massine is rapidly losing ground to the Ballet Theatre...
...crisis apparently carried none. The House of Commons debated a new India Bill (to bypass court appeals in cases of military executions). When Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, announced that British planes were being used to machine-gun mobs in Bihar Province (TIME, Oct. 5), Tory backbenchers burst into cheers...
...Every time I shave I cut my Adam's apple." This plaintive observation burst one day from Johnny Mercer, a nondescript, drawling Southerner who had been hanging onto the fringes of Broadway at the tail end of the gin & depression era. From force of habit, Johnny Mercer made a song out of it. The song made...
MOSCOW--Red Army troops burst out of a German encirclement in the Stalingrad factory area yesterday and took up a new defense line, while two powerful Nazi attempts to break through a suburb to the Volga were thwarted a Soviet communique said today...
WASHINGTON--The Japanese, in a new burst of activity in the Solomons, have landed "small reinforcements" on the key American-held island of Guadalcanal but U. S. Marines are maintaining their hard-won positions, the Navy reported tonight at a communique which hinted another major battle in the making...