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Word: bursting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line went dead. Then it rang on again; the bombing was over in that section. But there was to be more, just ahead. The battalion moved its command post 50 yards up the road. Then it halted abruptly as the ripping-silk burst of a German machine pistol sounded up ahead. The enemy was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Drive to The Port | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Japanese nightmare burst into harsh and thunderous reality. The mainland was attacked. The U.S.'s new and secret B-29 Superfortress bombers came up out of China last week and bombed a vital industrial target in the Empire's heartland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: The Beginning | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...Hall (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942). For two seasons Guitarist Condon has led small, impromptu combinations of simmering jazz talent in Saturday afternoons of the rarest syncopated heat. Last week Condon went on the air for the first of 13 weekly broadcasts (Blue Network, Sat. 3:30 E.W.T.). His opening burst, a wow, featured such vintage improvisers as Trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Trombonist Milfred "Miff" Mole, Clarinetist Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell, Pianist James P. "Jimmy" Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jam All Over the Place | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...spring of 1718 Britain's dis affected Catholic clergy gazed out to sea ready to burst into a loud Te Deum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poverty to Power | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Crew Chief Stuart (who named the plane after hearing Englishmen ordering their pints of mild & bitter in a local pub) tried hard to think of something spectacular that had happened to the ship. On one raid, it is true, a burst of flak fountained up right through the open bomb bay. Hot steel fragments rattled against cold steel bombs with a hellish din. But nothing happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: First Hundred | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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