Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point your first small burst of energy is over and you retire to your chair and wait; when the fish bites the bob and the flag are pulled into the water and begin waving vigorously. Then you have to unlock the fish and rebait the hook. "Bobhouse fishing," a popular variant of this sport, requires a little hut which you erect over the hole so as to keep warm while watching the red flag for action...
Once dropped, the hay was ready for feeding-the tightly pressed bales frequently burst like bombs when they hit the ground, scattering loose alfalfa in sprays. In its first seven days, Operation Haylift had flown 126 "sorties," had dropped 525 tons of alfalfa, seemed on the way to saving thousands of starving animals. Other missions were flown from Denver, Ogden, Utah; Kearney, Neb.; and Rapid City...
...suddenly to burst into song...
...Cabinet handed down its decision on the final, watered-down draft, Weizmann was waiting outside in the corridor. Suddenly his friend, Sir Mark Sykes, burst out of the cabinet room waving the Balfour Declaration. "Dr. Weizmann," he cried, "it's a boy." "Well," reminisces Weizmann, "I did not like the boy at first. He was not the one I expected...
...pines snagged the plane's wings. The C82 lurched, crashed, burst into flames. Pilot Kilpatrick and two crewmen died in their seats. A pilot instructor and a lieutenant observer got out. Cool-headed Sergeant Hodgkiss also tumbled out, unhurt. Said he of his thoughts in the few seconds before the crash, "I just sat there and thought about my wife, Pearl Lucille. We've only been married nine months...