Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange coincidence regarding TIME'S story on him in our Aug. 15 Business & Finance department. "On the day the story appeared," he said, "I boarded a plane going to Dallas. A woman sitting next to me was reading a copy of TIME when all of a sudden she burst out with 'Oh, my goodness!' Everybody on the plane turned around and she exclaimed, pointing to my picture, 'I'm sitting beside...
Blood & Cobwebs. Envy was a green-skinned wraith with a nest of snakes in its heart. Pride was a big-bosomed balloon about to burst-presumably, with pride...
...should make things very tough for the high-altitude bomber; bow rockets and fast submarines will be advanced enough to chop up conventional naval vessels at long range. Bush tends to describe war as crystallizing into a stable pattern-he states that a future war will bring "no such burst of new devices" as appeared in World War II. The devices he cannot talk about may prove him very wrong...
Foaming 20-ft. waves burst over the rafts, and the chafing salt burns grew so bad that the airmen soon had to cut their heavy G.I. shoes away. Rain squalls swept past in raw, chilling gusts. Huddled painfully together, their knees jammed under their chins, the men in the rafts rode out the first night and second day. Now & then they heard search planes passing in one of the greatest air-rescue operations in peacetime history, but the aircraft were hampered by a lowering ceiling and the rafts were not sighted. It was not until after dusk of the second...
Wreckage at Zero. The effect would be strongest at "zero": directly under the burst. The AEC's own building, a solid modern structure with four thick concrete floors, would be completely wrecked, and 80% of the people in the building would be immediate blast casualties; others would die later from radiation. Windows and partitions would be hurled about as missiles. More fragile buildings like the White House would be crushed like cardboard...