Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently hoped to break them most decisively. The Big Push was violently shaking the German fence from end to end; as pickets fell off, Allied troops were shouldering through to snatch prizes like Strasbourg and Belfort. But such openings would not tear the German fence down. Only when Bradley burst through, or when Montgomery turned the end of the fence in The Netherlands, would the Allies be able to lay it flat...
Then the bubble burst. Shrewd Cargill wriggled out of its short position by buying Canadian rye, shipping it into the U.S. General Foods began to unload some of its rye. The corn crop turned out to be a whopper, and distillers decided that they might get some of this for whiskey. Furthermore, use of rye in industrial alcohol is no longer compulsory. During November, rye prices slipped...
...Japs reversed course and headed out again from the inner waters toward San Bernardino Strait. Seemingly the change was not detected by U.S. reconnaissance. By the time Halsey's aircraft and ships had smashed the Jap carrier group off Luzon, the San Bernardino Strait force had burst out into the open and was steaming south toward Leyte Gulf...
...Government workers going back to their offices. Inside the Executive Mansion the President shed his dripping coat and hat and immediately went to his office for a press conference. The President's good humor had a steady, coal-grate glow this morning. The conference began with a burst of laughter. Franklin Roosevelt had just informed the men in the front row that he had no news-and they had replied, "Thank...
...wish to point out for your information, however, the fact that there was no intention to be "overtactful" in the fast cutting from the hit Marine. I should like to have been able to show more of that particular scene, but unfortunately the burst from the Japanese machine-gun fire which hit the Marine in the picture caught the cameraman and stopped his camera with Death...