Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flight was David McLean, a tenant on the estate of the Duke of Hamilton, near Glasgow. David was in the house Saturday night and everyone else was in bed when he heard a plane overhead. He ran out back of the farm, heard a crash and saw a plane burst into flame in his field. A man was coming down in a parachute, so David got out his pitchfork...
Franz von Papen did not tarry in Istanbul, but took off forty minutes later for Ankara, where Turkey's President Ismet Inönü awaited him anxiously. Turkey is the door that the old conspirator must open, and Turkey was about to learn whether he meant to burst it, pry it, or slip in the back way and unlock...
...better than Iraq's Ra^hid Ali El-Gailani was doing last week, if the British Navy kept Nazi troops from reaching Syria, if the drive on Egypt stayed stalled, then Ambassador von Papen would have to try to get the Turkish front door open. Whether to burst or to pry would be decided by his boss, and would depend on Hitler's timetable...
Blitz Without Roads? If the decision is to burst, Russia must be reckoned with, and Russia has promised Turkey not to join in any attack on her. Against Germany alone Turkey could put up a respectable, though probably not a winning, fight. Chief of Staff Marshal Fevzi Cak-mak (pronounced Chockmock) says that Turkey is an infantryman's paradise, with hills, valleys and passes that crack riflemen and machine-gunners could hold. Infantry is the Army's pride, as it has been since the days of the Janizaries. The infantry is rendered stronger by the fact that...
...nature of the bombs was naturally not divulged, but their effect was something to see. In a raid over Hamburg, a pilot who dropped one said: "After it burst I could see a great circle of red, and on the rim of it, quite a distance from the center, I saw buildings going up into the air. Although I have been on 31 raids, I have never seen anything to match the effect of this bomb." Another described what he saw when a new bomb dropped as "a huge heaving mass like a volcano in eruption, which rose and settled...