Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world less likely to be moved by "one impulse from a vernal wood" than by a burst from a bazooka, Author Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) has seen fit to issue a new selection of the poems of William Wordsworth...
...murmured Alexander Reither, whose "cream-colored piqué vest . . . revealed . . . the odd attractiveness that. . . made him a notorious breaker of hearts." "Loneliness," he assured Minnow, "is something you need not be afraid of! Not with your figure!" Minnow pocketed faithless Lover Reither's generous parting check, and burst into tears. "Oh, Alexander. . . .Oh, my darling, my Only. . . . Life is like a railway platform.... Au revoir, my dear...
Despite efforts to keep them out, the problems of Russian-occupied Iran and the Soviet demands on Turkey might well burst into the meeting. The Bomb was another likely candidate for controversy−if for no better reason than U.S. Senate dissatisfaction with the Moscow plan for a commission to "inquire into all phases" of atomic energy...
With that he scurried up to the speaker's platform. His boys broke into cheers, kept right on roaring. The boss's chin quivered. Finally, Petrillo burst into tears. "I'm a soft touch," he sobbed, reaching for a beer. "Either fight or cry." Later he added an aside: "But we don't want any victories, or any fights. We want to love...
After a series of overcast days, the sun burst out over Shanghai's busy river front this morning. There was a sparkle of excitement and hope...