Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River rising up her wall. When flood water reached the first floor, she tied a string to the trigger of a .22 cal. rifle, aimed it at her head and pulled the string. In south Buffalo an ice dam backed up Cazenovia Creek until a wall of water finally burst the ice; the resulting wave swept automobiles underwater, ripped a 515-ft.-long grain boat from its moorings in the Buffalo River and slammed it into the steel-girdered Michigan Avenue Bridge. The bridge shivered and collapsed...
...Whoo. Whoo. Twitter. Z-o-o-om. MA-A-A-CHINE!" The sounds whooped and wallowed in the semidarkness, seemed to race one another, swooped head on into ear-splitting collisions. Under the domed ceiling, lights wriggled and flickered, reeled and burst in dazzling, flaky showers. A voice came booming in: "MATCHWOOD SPLITS INTO MATCHES...
Palace of One's Own. In honor of the young couple, the happy Nizam proudly recited three Persian odes that he had composed himself. He garlanded them with flowers, after first pointing out that never before had a Nizam so bedecked a bride and groom, and in a burst of generosity made a cash grant of $21 a month to two local orphanages. The Nizam also promised to build the couple a palace next to his own, and settled on them a trust fund of undisclosed size-something he did not do for any of the five other begum...
...week's end, in a burst of judgment, the Mail decided the British recognition of Fidel Castro and his revolutionary government in Cuba was Page One fare. But by then, many a Mail reader cared little for such trivia, hurriedly turned to inside pages in search of the balloon girl and Reporter Barber in Tibet...
...film does not reach its denouement until the very end, and there is enough violence to last all but the most sadistic for several weeks. Again Gabin is masterful, although he leaves the shooting to several excellently portrayed gangster types who expires at the film's end in a burst of machine gun fire...