Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will be a fresh burst of literary achievement after the war, but no trend of cynicism as striking and widespread as there was in the 1920's, Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, stated yesterday, in an interview over the Crimson Network...
...more & more United Nations ships go to the bottom, food is becoming the No.1 problem on the British home front. Last week the London Daily Herald burst out with a "Lick That Platter Clean" campaign. "The time has come," said the Herald, "when we must clean our plates with bread and send nothing back to the kitchen. . . . Jam, marmalade and all preserves must be dropped on to the food and never on to the plate...
...whole spirit of the picture is that of the present age, mellowed by maturity and a conception of deeper tragedy, looking back on a gangling and naive but ever enthusiastic and dauntless period of its development. Roxie had her brief burst of glory in a time when bigness was the sole criterion of success, when the papers were full of nothing but big murders, big investments, big swindles, big fortunes, big failures, and big trials. So a publicity mad public, a press that knew which side its bread was buttered on, and a lawyer to whom law was all Greek...
...last desperate attempt to break through, the invaders threw into the melee their "panzer" division--a truck with the label "Tank" on its sides, but the nefarious machine was stopped in its tracks by a deadly burst of point-blank artillery fire...
Fighting Words. Congress has always been loath to tangle too closely with The Old Man of RFC, and the Truman Committee was no exception. Not so the Post, Washington's most potent newspaper, which burst out with a red-hot editorial, pointing out that Mr. Jones was hiding behind a screen of blame on the NDAC, the British, the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the President...