Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...packed in food until we thought we would burst and managed to wade through five races, photographing as we went, but we caved in before the Tatar banquet...
Four in Hand. A P47 Thunderbolt pilot in Italy fired a long burst at a Messerschmitt 109 over Verona. The enemy's right wing flew off, hit another German plane. Both ships exploded. No one was more surprised than the U.S. pilot when his ship's automatic motion-picture films were run off. Reason: some of his fire had hit two other German aircraft, destroyed them...
Early one afternoon last week the tiny, lush Republic of El Salvador (pop. 1,829,000) burst into sudden uproar. Rebels led by Colonel Tito Calvo seized the telephone exchange of the capital city (San Salvador), invaded two radio stations and broadcast the premature news that the Government had fallen. Many army units joined them. Most of the air force joined up, bombed the city. By night the rebels held nearly all of the capital except police headquarters and the fortress of El Zapote...
...dalliance with a small-town girl (Jean Sullivan). At last Flynn and Lukas decide that they are Frenchmen even more than murderer and plain-clothes man. The ethical problem is solved and the picture ended in what readers of A Tale of Two Cities will recognize as a brisk burst of Sydney Carton...
...When war burst over Europe's dam in 1939 many a wishful-thinking strategist offered a simple, temporarily sensible formula: let Allied planes load up in France, drop their bombs on Germany, land in Poland, reload, shuttle back to France...