Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strongman Frank Berst of the New York Athletic Club: the weight-throwing championship of the Amateur Athletic Union; heaving the 56-lb. weight 39 ft., 3¼ in. to burst the Amateur record set by mighty Pat McDonald back in 1911; at New York City's Triborough Stadium. Only other record-breaking performer among the 360 senior track & fieldmen was San Francisco's Cornelius Warmerdam, first and only pole vaulter ever to clear 15 ft. (he has done it 26 times). Though his best vault of the day was five inches under his world's record...
...Washington when the Mitchell row burst into flame. After the trial, Hap went into exile at Fort Riley, Kans., but later he began the rounds again. By this time he was a well-educated airman, with service in all the branches of the Air Corps and assorted experience as commander of flying fields, director of all the CCC camps in California, student at the best Army schools...
...barges, again laden, made off to their mother ships. One of the naval-escort vessels ran aground on a sandspit, survived a curtain of German fire. One of the barges put back toward the shore to look for missing stragglers, found none, then loosed a last burst of Bren-gun fire at the Germans. Dawn was rising when the party turned home to England...
...English-born Emanuel Shinwell, Laborite M.P., was attacking the Government's policy on the Spanish War, Commander Bower suddenly rose and yelled: "Go back to Poland!" Small, sinewy Emanuel Shinwell walked across the House of Commons and smacked Commander Bower so hard on the ear that his eardrum burst. The Commander took to his bed and issued bulletins on the state of his health; later he felt it necessary to say: "This is an example of what may happen if the Socialists...
Britain used her big fellows-Stirlings, Halifaxes, Manchester. They pulled over Cologne with split-second precision, while lighter bombers-Beauforts, Bostons, Hampdens-engaged German fighters or whirled low over the targets, sowing incendiaries. When the big bombs began to land, the heart of Cologne burst into flame. Shattered buildings tumbled, great craters were torn in the ground. All this airmen saw from aloft, where the light of Cologne's fires was soon bright enough to illuminate the blacked-out attackers...