Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policeman caught outside ran into a burst of searing machine-gun fire which hit him in the stomach. From rooftops all over the city, Stern Gangsters opened fire on troops and police...
...running in that order. Behind in the first quarter-lap, wheeler passed the Rhode Island lead-off man on the first turn and Mikkola's baton carriers were never trailing again. Ending the third leg, Rhode Island's Cashman spurted to within a few yards of Hamblett, but a burst of speed by Flint put the race on ice, with a time...
After the fig-leaf affair that blossomed and burst here some weeks ago, it might be dangerous to mention that the Veterans Theater, delivering the "world premiere" of William Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon" tonight, was thinking of a scene in which scantily-clad souls, awaiting reincarnation, flit around a dimly-lighted stage. Latest reports have it, however, that flesh-colored tights will not be worn. From its name, it may seem that the Veterans Theater, a group newly organized by Jerome Kilty '49, has some affiliation with an old Army or Navy clique. On the contrary...
...sort of blew away in the Stadium gale . . . . the Yale tooters looked blue all the way through in the flimsy outfits as the wind whipped through the loose-fitting uniforms . . . the Harvard Band started out with the temporary advantage of a lull in the storm, but the Crimson stands burst into a consternated hum when their drum major, failed in two attempts to catch his baton after throwing it over the goal posts...
...gathering tide of undergraduate disapproval of the H.A.A., temporarily slowed by the Student Council sop earlier in the fall, burst into an angry flood yesterday morning. Everywhere, students were agreed that the H.A.A. stood convicted not only of playing fast and loose with the undergraduate body, but of an almost criminal inefficiency...