Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success in Fire. As a climax to a week of climaxes, Rostov, the southern anchor of the whole German line and a bitterly defended place, burst into flames and fell to the attackers. Thus the Germans lost the one sure foothold for an attack in the Caucasus in the spring. Rostov's loss was the clearest indication yet that there might not be another German offensive in Russia, since any offensive would have to start all over again on a program which had once failed...
According to Domei's Malayan correspondent: Cherry trees transplanted ten years ago from Japan to a cool retreat near Singapore never bloomed in the shadow of the Union Jack. But this year, promptly on Kigensetsu (Japanese Empire Day) all the little cherry trees burst into bloom. The natives were said to be impressed...
Ducks, geese, gulls, eagles, buzzards and other birds are a hazard to aviation. A bird once smashed through a plane windshield, burst the metal bulkhead behind the pilot, hurtled the length of the cabin, broke into the baggage compartment in the tail. A 15-lb. turkey easily breaks conventional safety glass even at speeds under 100 m.p.h. Westinghouse shoots its chickens and turkeys at velocities up to 400 m.p.h. Results of the test: recommendations for thicker windshields than the usual safety glass. One type of panel developed has tempered glass on the outside, an air space, then two panes...
...explanations, State Secretary Cordell Hull chose to give no specific answers. When the criticism persisted, he finally burst into flaming Tennessee wrath...
...Germans brought up artillery and tanks. Shells burst among the ancient houses and fires spread. That night the sky glowed red from the burning Old Harbor district as men, women and children trudged out of Marseille for the evacuation camps 75 miles away. Explosions rocked the streets where the work of demolition had already begun, drowning out the rattling fire of execution squads which killed 300 men and women charged with resisting the evacuation...