Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even called Monaco Monaco. One ditty in the show, starring Ethel Merman, gaily spoofed "social climbers, wisenheimers" and informed listening Mainliners that they are "snooty snobs." Grace's sister Lizanne made her exit before the first-act curtain-"to get home to the baby-sitter." Thunderous applause burst out when one line of the script grudgingly allowed: "All the Kellys are nice people." Rainier and Grace had fortunately missed the show, preferring to stay in Maryland with friends, as the Princess's mother coolly explained their absence. When the long evening was over, Mrs. Kelly summed...
...themselves down with their own gunfire. Last week the Navy told how Test Pilot Tom Attridge was trying out the 20-mm. guns of a Grumman F11F-i fighter off Long Island. He put the airplane into a dive, speeded up to 880 m.p.h. and fired a four-second burst (about 70 rounds). Then he went into a steeper dive and fired another burst. As the last bullets left his guns, something struck and shattered his windshield. Pilot Attridge thought he had run down a bird. He headed for the Grumman base at Peconic River, but before he got there...
...would like to tell you that men kill kittens for good reasons, that for good reasons great bombs burst and fools hold sway. Robert Cumming...
Uneasy lies the head of any man who finds himself billed as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's successor. As soon as word leaked out that aristocratic Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano would be made Vice Chancellor as well (TIME, Oct. 22), German newspapers burst forth with headlines and editorials hailing Brentano as the "crown prince." The 80-year-old Adenauer saw red. He summoned Brentano, who, in happy anticipation of receiving the new honor, left a sickbed and journeyed 100 miles. Instead the old Chancellor wanted to talk of other things, then casually let fall that he had decided that...
...lolling in armchairs" or "slouching ... with hands in the pocket." All "satirical or bantering expressions" were taboo, and "a practical joke was never to be permitted." Bertie's leisure was to be spent "looking over drawings or engravings." On reading this memorandum, the Knight of the Garter burst into tears...