Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week ago, the Sun surprised even itself. Finally losing all patience with Harry Truman, it burst out all over Page One with a scalding editorial headed PRESIDENT TRUMAN GRINS WHILE LEWIS STRIKES. Excerpts: "Today the country is all but paralyzed . . . the nation beholds its President halting, hesitating, shuffling, postponing. . . . There is a good, old-fashioned word for all this. It is Cowardice. Useless Cowardice, silly Cowardice, unfruitful Cowardice...
Wayward Wit. Six years ago loquacious Jimmy was hauled into New York's Supreme Court, charged with libeling a state boxing commissioner. In a burst of silence, he heard Justice John McGeehan sum up his attributes: "One sees the rakish leer in his eye and gathers that he has a wayward wit. . . . He is engaged in a business that is mostly ballyhoo." Few people remember that the man in the iron hat managed five world champions...
...when Gene Autry, a cowboy minstrel on a Chicago radio station, came to Hollywood in the early '303. Gene had been bought for his radio following; it was clear that he had to keep on singing. It was also clear that a man can't very well burst into song with both guns smoking and his spurs mixed up in a dead heavy; so the primordial, hard-riding, lone-wolfish hero (best personified by Bill Hart) gave way to the more folksy, even mildly urbane type. Gene and Roy Rogers, like their prototypes, turn up in time...
...amendments to the Price Control Act would merely strangle the OPA slowly rather than end it with one clean knife thrust. Conspicuous spending in Miami Beach bistros and metropolitan race tracks make good reading but represent hardly a trickle of the national spending power waiting to burst out of the temporary confines of banks and bonds. When the new Price Control Act requires that ceilings on any item whose production for "a 12 month period is equal to its production for the peak year, July 1940 to June 1941" be lifted, economic dynamite is being held too near the flame...
...friend of ours several times removed decided that there was nothing Ted Williams had that he didn't have but a 336 lifetime batting average. In a fervent burst of House patriotism, he cut his afternoon class and panted down to Soldiers Field to shag flies for the Adams House nine...