Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shot in the Arm. Blizzards stalled the train. In Mojave, they switched to a bus nine hours behind schedule. Panting with excitement, Separovich and Edmonds burst into the directors' meeting, waved $10,000 in cash and fistfuls of checks. Sweat dripped down Yubi's swarthy face as he pleaded for the sport he loved. Directors jumped up and cheered. "The greatest shot in the arm for Coast League baseball in modern history," shouted one. Another phoned Cardinal President Sam Breadon, whose answer made more baseball history: "For them, the price is cut to $40,000." Tacoma...
Somewhere on the high seas two U-boats caught an Allied merchant vessel and surfaced to shell it. A high-explosive burst hit squarely on the bridge. Captain Arthur William Folster, of Durban, South Africa, collapsed on his deck, riddled with shell fragments, his right arm and left leg torn...
...Mustang turned into him and the Nazi peeled off into a diving turn. Ten thousand feet farther down the Mustang pilot nailed his man with a long close-in burst. First the FW's wheels fell out, then the plane exploded and its pieces tumbled earthward. Second Lieut. WauKau Kong, pilot of "Chinaman's Chance" and one of the U.S. Fighter Command's hottest aero-bats, had made his first kill...
...rounds of ammunition. Johnny Wine used that in one burst. We were a dead duck...
...Party paper, Sosialidemokraati, burst the rigid bonds of censorship to publish a bold call for peace. Banker-President Risto Ryti's gloomy cabinet met four times in four days...