Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity man burst into a War Production Board meeting to give Donald Nelson the news that, just when Nelson had finally succeeded in killing all civilian hopes for rubber, the President had resurrected them. Unbelieving Donald Nelson called the White House, learned that the President had indeed uttered the roseate words. Quickly Nelson called a press conference of his own. There he tried, without flatly contradicting his chief, to puncture the fond new hope. But good news travels faster than bad; many a citizen still believed, at week's end, that his present well-worn tires were...
...great military volcano of the Mediterranean got ready to erupt. From Port Said to Gibraltar, steam burst from a hundred vents, and the pent-up force of military, naval and air might rumbled like subterranean lava flows...
...Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, dashing, eupeptic hero of the Graf Spec fight, maintained its equivocal control-unable to venture too far for fear of Axis air attack but still superior to any opposition the Italian Navy offered. Some day, any day, the first fissure of the volcano might burst and the molten lava begin to flow...
Somehow this egg burst, spattering stars and whirling nebulae in all directions while matter broke down into simpler & simpler forms. ("We are still in time to see this wonder-world," said Lemaitre, "for we still have radium that has not completely extinguished into dull substances like lead and helium...
...woman plumped a stifling bouquet of autumn flowers into his arms: cheers burst from 300 waiting supporters of President Ortiz. The good doctor disingenuously protested that he had come merely to visit his porteño relatives: to wit, five uncles, 23 cousins. The crowd knew better...