Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball and outfielder converged under the floodlights, Walker pushed his spiked shoes in front of him, dropped to his rump, began to slide. At the last instant he stuck his gloved hand forward and gathered in Robinson's drive -barely off the grass. The fans gasped, then burst into a cheer. They cheered again the next time Harry Walker came to bat. Whatever his play might cost Brooklyn, it was a beauty...
...body of work as Edward Morgan Forster (rhymes with divorced-her). Often described as England's foremost living novelist, he hasn't written a novel since A Passage to India (1924). The four other novels he wrote earlier, all fairly short ones, came in a feverish burst of activity-for him-between 1905 and 1910. The rest of his fiction includes only a dozen short stories, written before World War I and long out of print in the U.S. They have now been collected in one volume for the first time. Old as they are, they bear none...
...great day. Flags and bunting had been hung from public buildings and churches; prominent among the decorations were the yellow and white colors of the papacy and nostalgic fleurs-de-lis. Bells of 27 Roman Catholic churches pealed a welcome. From behind grey clouds the sun burst forth, as the car bearing the tall, 42-year-old archbishop-designate, the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, drove through the crowded streets. Women pushed to the car's side, held up their children for a blessing. Msgr. Roy had arrived for his consecration as the eleventh archbishop of the Dominion...
Army uniforms got out. Three, armed with Sten guns, ambled upstairs. Outside the council chamber one man knocked a guard sprawling while another burst into the room. There, around a large table, sat Burma's interim Cabinet. Four bursts from the assassin's Sten gun sprayed the room. Most of the ministers were hit in the chest. Six slumped to the floor, dead. Two were mortally wounded. As ministerial blood trickled into a secretary's office next door, the gunmen strolled from the building, got in the jeep, drove away at 5 m.p.h...
...marriage of Egypt's King Farouk, was on relief in Manhattan. She told all, after breaking her shoulder in a fall. It seems that in 1907, as Actress Ola Jane Humphries, she had married Farouk's uncle, retired to live "on a rose-tinted cloud." The cloud burst in 1918, when the Prince died. The Egyptian Government grabbed her husband's $14 million estate and all her jewels. In 14 years of suits, the Princess had acquired nothing but a viewpoint: "I think anyone makes a great mistake in giving up a successful career...