Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world trembled at the travail of Russia, at the ghastly consequences that would burst upon it if her resistance collapsed...
...front in Burma had grown relatively static. Any day the Jap might burst into action, lance north into China to cut the rudimentary land supply lines from the west, now under development, or burst west into febrile, ill-prepared India. On the sea the Jap's teeth had been well drawn. Until he could work out another attack that might win by surprise, he could well devote his first attention to land drives...
...style was a far cry from the gentle whimsy which brought fame to his father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long & loud that his nose began to bleed. L'Action bragged: "We do not want to upset the Republic; we want to cut its throat. We are not a political party...
...Windsor people hastily set down their drinks, burst into tears, got up and scrambled for the doors. Housewives in Richmond, shopping on busy George Street, suddenly scattered like scared hens, lost their shopping lists, staggered tearfully home with nothing for their families' dinners. Near London's Liverpool Street Station, in the rush hour, weeping barmaids tried to serve hundreds of customers who lurched in as though half-seas over. They weren't, but they were gassed up. The A.R.P. was teaching the public a lesson. They had not been carrying their gas masks, and now tear...
Newport's waterworks slapped a lien on the two-million-dollar villa purchased last year by her mother for Torch Singer Gertrude Niesen, demanding $792 for excess water "used" at the villa between January and June. The pipes in the mansion had burst in February and poured out more than a million gallons. The waterworks also asked an $83 advance for the coming year...