Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's a joke, son," quipped one of the editors of the Lampoon yesterday, and Kenny Delmar, better known to his kids as Senator Claghorn, burst into an uncontrollable spasm of gallus snapping. This worthy had come north from his New York publicity agent's office to accept the sheepskin of "Doctor of Lamphonery" in the Bow Direct aviary. Everybody thought it was a riot when it turned out to be a sheep, everybody but the sheep, that...
...first time in five years Batavia echoed to the burst of festive fireworks rather than lethal gunfire. Food parcels were distributed to the poor as the people prepared for a great selamatan (feast). Forgetting for once their mutual distrust, the city's rival Dutch and Indonesian mayors joined forces on the Palace balcony to scatter 1,000 kilograms of copper coins over the jubilant throngs below...
...week's end came failure. With the roar of a great explosion, the flood burst the dike, billowed over about 25,000 acres, destroying much of the area's winter wheat. A big stored crop of potatoes was lost. That was not the worst of it: the Fenlands' farmers feared that it might take two years to pump out the lowlands and restore them to productivity...
Tied up during the first two rounds by cagey Dowat, who tried to block effectively his opponent's battering right glove and to score hard with his own right, Rodgers burst into his usual whirlwind, if unorthodox, style in the beginning of the second cante...
Suddenly a flickering, ethereal light danced about the venerable head of Rural Dean Cyril A. Wheeler. The back of his snowy surplice had burst into flame from a nearby candle. The dean looked startled, but stood quietly as Leighton's quick-thinking Vicar S. John Forrest hurried over and began beating him on the back with a hymnbook. In a moment the crisis was over. As the solemn Requiem Mass swept sonorously on ("Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, rescue me from fires undying"), Dean Wheeler hurried out to don a new surplice. "I felt unusually warm," he explained...