Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barrage, lay prone or squatted in Bombay streets. But although Gandhi's movement was spreading, the Raj persisted in pretending that it had suppressed the demonstrations and averted greater uproar. The danger, increasing week by week, was that the full fury of India's disorder would burst when dry war weather in late September and October* adds its welcome to Japanese invaders...
...double-elliptical, high-uffen-buffen, double-turreted, back-acting submarine war junk. . . . She is about the shape of a sweet potato that has burst in the boiling. She draws 14 feet of mud forward, and 16 ft. 6 in. of slime aft, and has three feet of discolored water over the maindeck in fair weather. . . . All the clinkers, ashes, buckets, shovels, etc. and an occasional sleepy coal passer are sucked up the flue and blown thousands of miles...
Tales of Manhattan first occurred to the mind of a cultivated European named Samuel Spiegel, who, in a burst of Americanism, recently changed his business name to S. P. Eagle. Friends still call him Sam. Three years ago, when he first thought up the film, S. P. Eagle had no business. He had nothing more than the bare idea for the picture. And he was close to starving. The apocryphal story has it that Mr. Eagle thereupon invited Hollywood's most expensive authors to dinner at Dave Chasen's swank restaurant, ordered the best that Mr. Chasen...
...I.R.A. had other arms and ammunition. Two nights after Thomas Williams' hanging, gunmen fired on a police patrol car in Belfast, missed the police but wounded a child bystander and a man. At Belleek and Randalstown and Culloville, rifles cracked, and bombs burst...
...Kiska. Back home, his 20-room manor at Oyster Bay, L.I., was opened as a convalescent home for torpedoed merchant seamen. Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, reviewing a parade of WAACs at Fort Des Moines, congratulated the leader of the winning group of marchers so successfully that Margaret M. Wheatley burst into tears. Emily Bradley Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor, enlisted in the WAVES in Boston as an apprentice seaman. Alfred Ryder, 26, long the "Sammy" of Radio's The Goldbergs, went off to Camp Upton as a private. Benito Mussolini, who used to pose at the controls...