Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right and 60 to our left, the Crocks were still shooting their liquid death across the canal in spurts that slid over the water, then arched high into the air, hitting the bank and curling along and over it toward the Jerries' trenches. Everything it touched withered, then burst into flame...
Meanwhile T.V.'s appointment had given China and China's friends a new burst of hope. In a full summer and autumn of battle, the Chinese had been defeated at Hengyang. They had been defeated at Kweilin. The first break in their successive defeats was last week's victory in Kweichow. The road to victory was still up the sharp sides of mountains. But with T.V. at work again, there was a new faith that China would one day get over the hump...
...tuned their queer looking instruments to the note A from a piano. Then they played some of the eeriest, sweetest, funniest, saddest, sourest and most heavenly music ever heard. The first concert of the sextet of emiritons roused occasional flutters of approval and once in a while a great burst of laughter. Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven never batted...
...last week 1,250 U.S. heavies, escorted by 1,000 fighters, bombed four synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. Only a dozen German fighters were seen, and four of these were shot down; but the flak was the thickest and deadliest that U.S. crews had ever encountered. "Flak burst in a mass," said one radioman, "a forest of it so dense that we could only get occasional glimpses of the formations ahead of us. It was a solid wall at the target...
...silence. Then, he went to his sister's house. Before entering, he automatically tried to straighten his tie. As he did so, he suddenly realized how he looked-a matted beard, ragged clothes that a peasant had given him, the accumulated dirt of battle, retreat, prison. He burst into hysterical laughter. He went into the house to find that while his sister knew him, he scarcely knew her. Her husband had been arrested, tortured, shot...