Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Retreat. When he had run out of rifles and the enemy was closing in, Kelly snatched up 60-mm. mortar shells, pulled the safety pins and threw them as hand grenades. One burst killed five Nazis. But that could not go on indefinitely. The detachment had to pull...
...steps loitered an informer. He counted one, two, three-half a dozen prizes, waited to count no more. An hour later the Gestapo burst in, arrested 30 of Norway's fiercest patriots...
Short, bespectacled Gilbert Dodds kneeled and softly prayed that God grant him speed. Then the 25-year-old divinity student lined up for the final indoor mile race of 1944 in Madison Square Garden. Four minutes, 7.3 seconds later his prayer was answered munificently. With an amazing burst of last-quarter speed, he hung up a new world's record, one-tenth second faster than the mark which had stood since 1938 (TIME, March...
Shortly after 11 o'clock one morning last fortnight, a little group of men burst out of the Democratic conference room in the Senate Office Building. They were led by an extraordinary figure. Tall, pink and portly, with a mane of grey-white hair curling over his collar, he was dressed in a long-coated black suit, a boiled white shirt fastened with gold studs, a black bow tie, and mirror-shiny black boots. As he pushed his way through a swarm of newshawks and photographers Tom Connally of Texas, whose appearance reminds some of an oldtime Shakespearean actor...
They went over at treetop level, doing close to 500 m.p.h., with their guns blazing. As they pulled up at the end of the field a burst of ground flak caught the Major's plane. Red flames began to lick out behind as he fought his way back up to altitude. Then Beckham's Florida drawl crackled through the interplane radio...