Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burst out, glancing at my watch. "Whatever possessed you to do that...
...doctrines, and out of them concocted Napoleonic battles on paper, which on the ground turned out to be slaughterhouse dramas." Not until the end of the Flanders campaign did Kiggell visit the corpse-filled swamp where countless thousands of British and German infantrymen had died in the mud. Kiggell burst into tears: "Good God, did we really send men to fight in that...
...Venice grand prize went to an Italian cartoon commercial, "All Over the World"-a wild melange of cloaked Parisian policemen, covered wagons in the American West, a sexy Brazilian samba dancer, remorseless Russians firing a dog-filled Sputnik into space, and finally Italy, emerging in a burst of sun and sea. Sponsor: "Stock" Brandy...
...Paul, with that characteristic gesture of the hand, began his defense . . . While he was thus defending himself Festus burst out, "You are raving, Paul! All your learning has driven you mad!" But Paul replied, "I am not mad, your excellency, I speak nothing but the sober truth. The king knows of these matters, and I can speak freely before him. I cannot believe that any of these matters has escaped his notice, for it has been no hole-and-corner business . . ." "Much more of this, Paul," returned Agrippa, "and you will be making me a Christian!" "Ah," replied Paul, "whether...
...hear the Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building up in him," says McCarty. "I knew he was going to hit one of them." When the punch came, McCarty caught a memorable picture of a teen-ager exploding in a burst of rage expressive of a deep yearning for equality and civil rights...