Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yankee Clipper, dropping down to a river landing at Lisbon, skimmed the water with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident...
...coast of Norway, and "high above us, on the shelf of an incidental mountain, the lovely, unbelievable, almost-forgotten picture of a lit window . . . hung in the morning darkness. For two years we had not seen such a window." But while the men stared, enemy star shells burst in the sky and small boats carried the Commandos to the beaches. Destroyers of the Royal Navy escorted them, and "sometimes we caught snatches of the suave voice of the naval commander: 'Make to Rastus-Sink her,' or 'Make to Seraph-Board...
Most exciting moment occurred Monday evening when late diners and hangers-on at the mess hall were privileged to witness the geyser of water which burst forth from the starboard coffee urn.... A loud cheer went up in admiration of Miss Opal Bowers, of the Cowie Hall staff, who, heedless of losing that new curl, rushed into the torrential shower and closed the offending valve...
Over Seattle a big Boeing bomber was in trouble. Fire whipped from an engine nacelle, was extinguished, burst out again. Four men jumped. Too late. On Boeing Field, cleared of traffic when the fire was reported by radio, firemen waited for the plane to come in. There was not enough time. The bomber, now low in the air, dived down flaming, crashed into the Frye packing plant, where employes were at lunch...
Bell Aircraft's first break came in 1937 when it proudly announced the Airacuda, a freakish-looking, poor-flying bomber-fighter which got a burst of publicity but little else. Then came Bell's first success: the Airacobra, a flashy, 400-m.p.h., single-place fighter which has a cannon in its nose and climbs like an express elevator...