Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small circle of great and near great began to form: Supreme Court justices, Cabinet members, close Presidential advisers, and their wives. Promptly at noon, at the time prescribed by law, the short and simple fourth-term inauguration began. The Marine Band, thin and brassy in the cold winter air, burst into Hail to the Chief...
...pilots did not breathe that fast under severest stress. When the plane nosed down for the run over the target all readings began to go down a little. When the target run actually began, the pulse was down to 80, blood pressure to 132, respiration to 26. The first burst of antiaircraft fire shot the pressure up to 138 again. The pulse went to 96 and the blood pressure to 140-its highest-over the strongest part of the target...
Stream v. Dam-Burst. Similarly, said Economist Clark, a postwar version of the War Labor Board will be needed to keep a temporary grip on wages, and WPB will have to keep a light touch on raw materials to: 1) make sure that small business is not squeezed out in the first buying rush; 2) prevent a speculative boom such as helped bring on the postwar collapse...
...that they must be done away with in short order. Rather they should see them as tools which, skill fully used, will unstopper the economy so that the forces for full employment, i.e., war-created markets and huge savings, are freed in a steady stream, not one dam-breaking burst...
...What Cheek!" Next day he stepped out to watch the war. A burst of Spandau machine-gun fire hit a wall 30 yards away. Said Sandhurst's Churchill, with disdain: "What cheek!" He went on watching...