Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battleship captain* had his stomach laid open by a shrapnel burst as he went from conning tower to bridge to direct his ship's fight. He fell to the deck, disdained attempts to lift him to safety, continued to command until the bridge went up in flames. Two officers attempting to save him were themselves saved only after a third officer climbed above the fire, passed a line to an adjoining battleship, another to the trapped men, thus led them to safety...
...British communiqués that soon Chinese troops might be coming over the weather-worn humps on the horizon to raise the Japanese siege. Striking from behind the ridge of hills where for three years they had lined the colony's border, Japanese troops, two divisions strong, had burst through British territory to the waterfront of Kowloon (center of picture). The Japanese presented the British with an ultimatum to surrender. The British refused. At week's end the Japanese announced the opening of an all-out attack on the island fortress itself...
...German officer was escorting 20 British prisoners to the rear near Tobruk. The British kept fanning out; the German would round them up, but they would spread again. Suddenly two of the British cut & ran. The German fired a burst over their heads with a light machine gun. Hearing the shots, the entire personnel of an Italian artillery battery popped their hands up from behind some nearby rocks, surrendered to the running Britons...
...song & dance, romance and slapstick. With the greatest of ease he polishes off Yale, 82-to-0; Notre Dame, 6-to-5; Minnesota, 27-to-0. He beats Notre Dame with a last-minute touchdown when someone capitalizes on his fear of floods by yelling, "The dam has burst!" - frightening him the length of the field...
When the conspirators burst into the police station, waiting men seized them. The bribed officers had revealed the plot to the Government...