Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British) destroyer Hastings had invited British officials and Anglo-American newsmen to an "Olympic torch party" in a restaurant. The party was gay. Lieut. Colonel John Casey, a pink-faced, ginger-mustached member of the British mission, was singing a Greek ballad, Mavra Matya (Black Eyes) when a burst of Communist machine-gun fire thudded into the building. One gendarme was killed trying to douse the lights; the others got down under the tables. Casey went on singing in the darkness to cover the departure of two Greeks who sneaked out, reached the shore, swam half a mile...
...catlike ability to survive disasters. In a series of swift, well-timed drives, slashing behind the Nationalist lines, he had won back nearly all of Shantung. General Wang Yao-wu, the Nationalist provisional governor, was bottled up in his capital at Tsinan. Chen's surging armies threatened to burst out of the province and imperil the entire shaky Nationalist defense system in Central China...
...those who wish Picasso had kept his art "recognizable," the docents can quote the protean genius's own words. "What do you think an artist is," he once burst out, "an imbecile who has only his eyes?" They might also suggest that baffled gallery-goers become willing "imbeciles" themselves-using their eyes to the full, and not asking too many questions. But that of course might do away with the docents...
...temporarily blinded the crew, burned off radio antennas, punched round holes in wingtips and tail surfaces. One pilot described what it felt like: "The radio static kept building in intensity until I couldn't keep the earphone close to my ears. I heard what sounded like the sharp burst of a German 88 millimeter. A sheet of flame enveloped the whole cockpit. Everything looked a bit fuzzy . . . the instruments jumped around so much that I couldn't tell for a moment what was going on. I just let the airplane buck through...
...turn on his heel and walk away, drop his gloves or scramble crab-fashion to left & right. When Joe Louis tried recently to hire one of Walcott's old handlers to study Walcott's style, one of Jersey Joe's sparring mates burst out laughing at the idea. He explained: "Why, I've fought a hundred rounds with Walcott and know less about his style now than when I started...