Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerful Radical (center) Party, some 5,000 members gathered last week. The question: whether to join the Socialists, Communists and Progressive Democrats in a coalition against Juan Domingo Perón's all-out drive for the Presidency. Suddenly and ineptly, Perón-bossed police burst in and chucked tear-gas bombs. The Radicals joined the coalition...
...even forgave Leicester his last, most presumptuous burst of ambition-his assumption of a princely title ("Excellency") when he led English troops into The Netherlands to fight the Spaniards. And when the Spanish Armada itself came beating up the Channel in 1588, Leicester was made commander of England's military forces. But this was his last service to his Queen. At the height of national rejoicing over the Armada's defeat, Leicester caught fever and died...
Interservice rivalry burst into visible flame last week when scrappy, articulate Lieut. General James Doolittle sat down before the Senate Military Affairs Committee to testify...
...first time since The Bomb burst, a great government cracked down on its talkative, uneasy atomic scientists. The government was Britain's; the crack-downers were Ernest Bevin and his temporary collaborator, Winston Churchill...
Along the railways leading south from these key Hopeh cities fighting had been going on for weeks. Last week the news burst into the open, and General Ho Ying-chin, Chungking's chief of staff and commander in chief of all field forces, went to the north. He flatly declared that the Government would reopen communications "as soon as possible." So far it was primarily a political and economic war; the military phase was incidental...