Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confirmed by you gentlemen," said George soberly. Then he cut loose with his best comedy routine. The Senators almost died laughing. Would George give up his 22 directorships? "I'd hate to cut out all," grinned George, "because what if the Democrats lost in '48?" In a burst of jolly good fellowship they confirmed George for the job. Senator Barkley wrung his hand...
...feelings were growing firm. Half a dozen of Mansfield's deputies were beaten and carried out of town. When the polls closed at 4, a tense throng milled outside the voting place in the office of the Athens Water Co. to await the count. Suddenly two G.I. watchers burst through the shattering plate glass door, closely followed by a deputy wildly waving a pistol. A woman in the crowd screamed: "Oh God, here it comes...
When the results were announced at the Battersea Town Hall, waiting crowds burst into The Red Flag...
...Bikini last week, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Stephen White saw "an explosion so fantastic, so mighty and so beyond belief that men's emotions burst from their throats in wild shouts. . . ." It was beyond description, but he did not want his paper to be beyond describing it. On the end of his dispatch, he tacked a beseeching note to his editor: "Don't take any superlatives out of my copy. This was SOMETHING...
...good gracious . . . my good gracious. I just could kind of just cry when I think we all got to scratch around and worry, worry and scratch around, and then those bills, pay everything on the installment plan, and coming in and coming in, oh dear, sometimes I just burst out crying in my sleep, I am older than you boys ... I could just burst out crying...