Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent you from being misled into feeling that you have but to step into this country. If you cherish any such idea, we will not fail to resist you with all the might we can muster." But in the next breath he was threatening that "hidden discontent may burst forth into welcome for the Japanese should the latter land in India." He bluntly disapproved of an unofficial suggestion that the U.S., China and Britain were prepared to underwrite India's post-war self-government. As a last resort, he revealed in his newspaper Harijan, a fast-to-the-death...
According to this record, Russia was promised a second front for 1942. On this same record, Churchill and Roosevelt did not make the promise in a burst of unmilitary optimism. They made it with the advice and consent of their military advisers, men who must then have been aware of the facts which were still being cited last week to prove that a second front in 1942 will certainly be difficult, that it may fail, and that it may even be impossible...
...second gunboat the deck was swept clean-figures threw themselves into the water as Tex's guns poured cannon shells into the water close by the side. Bullets skidded off the top of the water and struck the ship near the water line. Then fires burst out and the ship started listing...
...beach on a ridge of sand. It was not a regular gun post, with an emplacement and protecting sandbags, but just one machine gun on a tripod with two young men in German uniforms behind it. Finucane's second-in-command, whose name was Aikman, saw a burst from the machine gun go through Paddy's starboard wing and radiator. A split-second later Pilot Officer Aikman blew the gun post to blazes. But it was a split-second too late for Paddy Finucane...
Price Boss Leon Henderson, trying hard to keep his ceilings in repair, had a week of ups & downs. The War Labor Board, in the Little Steel case, created a new burst of purchasing power for him to worry about. There his only consolation was that the board might have done worse. But he also got a little help...