Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emotional surge that made the Civil War possible came the one great U.S. cultural burst-Emerson and Whitman, the Lincoln speeches and the Lincoln legend, and great war songs such as The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Americans will know what Author Baldwin meant when he wrote: "This is our job: to transmute our potential strength into dynamic energy, into the fighting ships and planes and guns and men we need until the raucous voice of America-the voice of Walt Whitman and The Rail Splitter, of George Washington and the gentle Lee, the voice of the blue-jeaned...
Biggest news for the intercollegiate track world was Fran Maloney's amazing burst of speed with upset indoor I. C. 4A. champ Mike Prohodsky with a triumphant 7:06.7 clocking in the mile and a half distance. Crusader Maloney holds the N. E. A. A. U. two-mile title. Bob Kent with a fourth was Harvard's best against this competition...
...word. The capital's swamped switchboards were an indication of what was inundating Washington: a flood of people and business. Last week, with Easter holidays, the Cherry Blossom Festival, and the Daughters of the American Revolution rustling into Washington for their annual counterrevolution, the flood burst all bounds...
Towards midnight, a flare burst from a circling airplane, bathed the marsh in man-made moonlight. Boats pushed out from the rushes, pulled alongside the plane's door. Rescuers began removing the passengers. Dr. Crile had begun to wander a bit. "I am Dr. George Crile," he said. "I want a warm bath." Captain O'Brien was unconscious...
...harbor of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, four tankers, three of them Italian and one German, burst into flame before Venezuelan officials could seize them. Three other Italian ships were boarded and seized. As the tankers blazed offshore, threatening the oil-soaked docks, angry crowds rushed from the harbor to the center of town, set fire to the German-owned Gambrinus Hotel...