Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colin Wilson buttonholed Tynan, hissed: "Tell your friend to keep his filthy mouth closed or we'll get him." "Stay out of my life, Wilson," growled Tynan and pushed past to join his wife and Logue in the pub next door. They were barely seated when the door burst open, and in poured the Exemplars. Scattering longhairs and spilling beers, Wilson, Holroyd, Playwright Michael (Yes-and After) Hastings, 20, Novelist Bill (The Divine and the Decay) Hopkins, 29, and their partisans pushed up to the Exertionists' table. "I'll crush you with my Daimler," screeched Holroyd...
...Cairo balcony and delivered his inaugural address to half a million screaming schoolchildren. "O youth," he shouted, "the United Arab Republic has come into being." The merger of Egypt and Syria, he said, now becomes "the basis of Arab union." "Mabrouk Gamal-Congratulations, Gamal," shrieked the schoolkids. Rockets burst overhead, parachuting small Egyptian and Syrian flags down on their heads. Egypt's top singer, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, led them in chanting the newly composed anthem of the Arab union: "O Allah, We Won by Your Will...
...Secretary Richard Austen Butler last week was installed and violently decorated by fun-loving undergraduates. "By 1970," Rab Butler was telling some 2.000 roaring students, "Britain can expect to increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing a wintry smile and, progressively, two ripe tomatoes, a ghoulish facial paste of flour and eggs, wreaths of toilet paper and, finally, foamy spray from a battery of fire extinguishers. Among the other casualties...
...November morning in 1941, a Mazi counter-intelligence agent, Sergeant Hugo Bleicher, followed up a tip and burst into Toto's Paris hideout. By night-all The Cat was in a prison cell...
...came up for trial in Paris in 1949, and for several days she sat in the dock with a "fixed expression of self-satisfied insolence" while witness after witness testified about the men and women she had betrayed. She chewed gum during the prosecutor's summing up, burst into a huff only when the judge revealed that Bleicher had confided that he slept with her only out of a sense of "duty." She was sentenced to "national indignity" and the guillotine, but because of her undeniable services to the Allies, the death sentence was set aside on appeal...