Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...below). Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army had slashed a quick opening, 'after its crossings downriver from Duisburg, and cut a bypassing path north of the Ruhr Valley's complex of industrial cities. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First Army had begun to burst the seams of its beefed-up bridgehead along a 35-mile front. Front reporters flashed the magic word: breakthrough...
...world entered the last half of the sixth year of war, there was simply not enough food to go around. Since the U.S. is the greatest food producer in the world, the big troubles piled up in Washington. Last week the flame of conflict among three Government groups burst from the pile...
...back through the American lines to hide and kill from ambush. Major General Verne D. Mudge, commanding the First Cavalry, had been wounded by a grenade while inspecting a newly captured area. Big, booming-voiced, silver-haired Major General Edwin D. Patrick, commanding the 6th Division, died in a burst of machine-gun fire as he sat in a foxhole on a ridge studying the positions of his troops...
...conference did Winston Churchill arrive in theater-like Central Hall, Westminster. He made his entrance with the grandeur of royalty. In front, with mincing step, walked Party Chairman Ralph Assheton. Behind came a retinue of Cabinet Ministers. The 2,000 delegates waved agenda sheets in well-bred excitement, burst into a politely modulated For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Rosy-cheeked and beaming, in tail coat and striped trousers, "Winnie" waved back. Then he launched into his speech...
More trouble for the Japs developed elsewhere. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan's American-trained Chinese troops burst into Lashio, were in position to cut the Japs' routes of retreat...