Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leather-toughened and calloused by the jungle, wild-haired and wild-eyed, Pacifico Batista a month ago burst from the wilderness where he had hidden 15 years and scared an old crone into hysterics by his mating gestures (TIME, Sept. 27). Last week, from the little Argentine border village of Itacuarare, where Batista was captured by five policemen and an awestruck populace, came a picture of El Tarzan...
...pages from its sky scraper windows; on Mulberry Street the sad-eyed people of "Little Italy" over came their hurt long enough to pretend to celebrate for the benefit of news photographers. But otherwise, as in the rest of the U.S., the first sharp ripple of excitement, the first burst of good feeling soon faded and died on the surface of another war-as-usual...
Some 50 yards away and without warning the Germans opened fire. Two trawlers burst into flame and sank; three escaped. Twelve men drowned. The Swedish Government protested, demanding assurances and compensation...
Chaplains have been writing home from the fighting fronts about an unusual burst of religious interest, Among soldiers & sailors. Fighting men suddenly snatched from death have written books describing how they prayed in peril and how their prayers were heard.* To some people these spiritual stirrings look like the beginning of a religious revival. Others have been reminded of the little boy who would say his prayers only at night, explaining that "any bright boy can look out for himself in the daytime, but at night he needs some help...
...second shell was closer. Fanny Rouge again radioed corrections. The third burst was on the nose. "Target, target," said Fanny Rouge. "Fire for effect - one round...