Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barrel or rags burst into flames in Widener basement about 8 p.m. last night, but automatic sprinklers doused the blaze before any damage was done...
...through. Here the sense of theater is weakened by wordiness and the episodic method is inadequate. The episodes themselves are often skimpy and short-breathed; the minor characters are mostly not even wooden-just beaverboard. The many scenes, instead of serving as a flight of stairs to the great burst of emotion at the end, are like stepping-stones in a rushing stream, with awkward jumps between...
Seams & Dreams. For one thing, he really hated concert tours: trains and boats almost invariably made him sick. Besides suffering from stage fright, he had a good deal of trouble with his clothes: buttons popped, belts burst, seams split. And for years he was tortured by a recurrent nightmare-that the orchestra would begin while he was still dressing for the concert. In the dream, he never got to the piano in time...
...worst didn't have a chance to happen. The diathermic duo was in fourth place, six lengths behind such high-caliber swifties as Spy Song and Coaltown (a stablemate), when suddenly, as if stung by bees, Citation shot ahead. In one brief explosive burst he catapulted past the leaders. Said Arcaro later: "I never hit him. I never even clucked to him. All I did was look ahead and see that LeRoy Pierson, on Coaltown, was blocking the way. So I yelled 'Watch out, LeRoy!' It must have been the password...
...Christian Diestl is an Austrian would-be superman who tolerates his Nazi party comrades since they are useful for world conquest; Michael Whitacre is a Broadway character worried about the sordid emptiness of his life; Noah Ackerman is a young Jewish boy confused by modern life but determined to burst through to personal fulfillment...