Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They burst into song. "Raise your voice in gladsome song, we are up & coming, progressive, kind and strong." Mr. Truman edged back into his office as they were about to begin The Missouri Waltz...
...Candy rationing, ended by the Labor government in a burst of optimism (TIME, May 2), was clamped back on last week. The planners had figured wrong: Britain was hungrier for candy than they had thought, and supplies on hand soon ran out. The new ration was the same as before: four ounces a week. To Britain's melancholy moppets that meant a couple of four-inch chocolate bars or a small bag of gumdrops...
...three carloads of Syrian army officers rolled through the deserted streets of Damascus, stopped at the home of Syria's dictator, short, stumpy Husni Zaim. The officers awakened Marshal Zaim, told him he was under arrest. Then they sped to the home of bespectacled Premier Mohsen el Barazi, burst into his bedroom, took him from the house in his pajamas. Within the hour, a drumhead court-martial had sentenced both to death. As the sun rose, they were executed by a firing squad in the Mezze Prison...
From the garden of his London house, Henry Bishop peered at the red-faced stranger in the yard next door. The man was staring straight up at the bathroom where Bishop's wife was making splashing sounds in the wash basin; suddenly he burst into a clumsy dance of delight and blew a kiss to the window...
When the war began going against the Japanese, Negishi's bubble burst. Heavy Allied bombardments smashed most of his factory equipment. By war's end, the Negishi Manufacturing Co. was reduced to one dilapidated repair shop. For a while Negishi kept on trying to find orders. But times were bad. He grew disgusted, retired to his country inn in Chiba, where he found pleasant company in the inn's manager, a lissome 23-year-old girl...