Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half through his pedestrian, almost defensive report to Britain and the U.S. last week. Suddenly, into an uninspired voice, crept the thrust and crackle of the fighting Churchill. In one by-election after another, ungrateful Britons had turned down Churchill candidates, criticized Churchill politics. He was angry. His anger burst, red-hot, out of thousands of British and U.S. loudspeakers...
...chance we in management missed! From 1921 to 1930 we had everything all our own way. A friendly Administration in Washington. Low taxes. And a friendly public. And what did we do with our power? On the economic side we gave this country a balloon boom that had to burst. On the moral side we produced men like Insull and Hopson and Musica, who undermined confidence in business...
Technical information was still restricted, but Londoners reported that the rocket shells burst with a concussion more terrifying than a bomb explosion, and throw out a curtain of metal fragments which come down like hailstones...
...over the target his luck ran out: a burst of flak enveloped his Fort, sent it diving out of formation...
...land the 1st Division, which had been warned that U.S. planes were expected, mostly held its fire. But antiaircraft gunners (as well as soldiers with rifles) of the 45th-which had not been warned-joined in the firing. More U. S. planes fell to pieces or burst into flames. Many blood-soaked parachutists tried to jump; some made...