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Word: burstingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...district. Exploding tear-gas bombs sent the demonstrators into alleyways, wiping their eyes. Then banners peeked around corners again, lines re-formed and marched forward. The sound of rifle fire or sudden panic would send the demonstrators racing away. When police charged or fired into the crowds, angry roars burst with the hysterical fervor of a high-school cheering section. It sounded like: "Rhubarb! Rhubarb! Rhubarb!" Soon the crowd began chanting "Inqilab Zindabad!" (Revolution Forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Inqilab Zindabad | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Plot. What these men discussed the Nazis would have given tanks to know. Fearing that closer liaison would result in increased United Nations military action against the Reich, the Nazis inspired a burst of reported reports via Stockholm that the Russians might soon sue for peace. As if in answer, the Russians revealed that last winter they had rounded up and executed scores of Nazi parachute spies, had crushed out cells of fifth columnists-"disaffected youths, former Tsarist officials and civil servants"-in Leningrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: In the Kremlin | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...nicas were trim and clean-cut. He bravely ventured a few faroles, swirling his cape overhead in the pass. Greatest applause and the bull's ear went to a comedian, who arduously dispatched a bull calf with toothpick horns to the accompaniment of a conga. The greatest burst of catcalls and jeers rose at the eviction of a teenage boy who leaped the arena fence and had beginner's luck passing José Maria's small (250 kilos) but tough bull. During this interruption José Maria stepped aside, then came back to capture the crowd with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: The Brothers | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...over my tracers and fell away smoking. I kicked in behind the second plane. He jettisoned his bombs, but I set him afire. I kicked my ship after the leader. He plowed right on to the field, dropped his bombs. There I caught up and gave him a burst. He just fell to pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Victory at Hengyang | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Amateurs also watch for novae-stars which inexplicably burst into brilliance, then subside. If a nova searcher sees a strange new star, he telegraphs its location to a major observatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Amateur Stargazers | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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