Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action on the Iran case sent all the big powers scurrying about in a furious burst of housecleaning, to redd up their records before U.N. got around to them. Since it was apparent that the main issue would involve the world's power vacuums, the areas where the dependent peoples live, most of the housecleaning activity turned around colonial questions...
Kindling Point. In Glendive, Mont., at a hot moment in the Glendive-Sidney basketball game, the Scoreboard burst into flames...
...Catholics shouted Liberté! Liberté! as revolutionaries had once chanted it in those same suburbs. Then they burst into the Marseillaise, which for 150 years was anathema to conservative clerics but had now become an answer to the Internationale...
...talked to the Japanese, a Chinese official burst into the room and warned: "The Chinese manager of the British Tobacco Company who talked to American correspondents here last week was shot and wounded by a Chinese gunman the following day." Our informant said he was not worried; he could take care of him self. Nevertheless he was removed to a place where there was some assurance of his safety...
...sanatorium for alcoholics; her uncle still languished in the state penitentiary. The relatives who raised Susan were "a whole gibbering pack of unknowns, all drunken, all semi-criminal, all diseased." Prudish Susan was so overcome by the "beautiful luxury of grief" in telling this hideous tale that she burst into tears. Slick only poured more molasses on his flapjacks. But, in the middle of the night, he suddenly turned to Susan and said: "I must tell you something. All my life I've wanted to be a priest...