Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot up 40 planes on the ground, machine-gunned the Jap pilots as they ran for their cockpits. At the edge of the field a Jap gunner with a machine gun mounted on a truck drew a bead on the enemy leader's plane, poured a long burst into its belly. While all the others zoomed away, Scarsdale Jack's plane stalled, shuddered, crashed in flames...
Wake. The task force crept up before dawn on Feb. 24. Before the sun had burst up out of the sea behind low-hanging clouds, the planes were launched, the force advanced, deployed, put into action. The Jap was caught snoozing...
Along the 15-mile front on Bataan Peninsula, Japanese patrols came to life again. From Bagac on the China Sea to Pilar on Manila Bay, the line burst into chattering uproar...
...visited by a man from the water department when the meter had run up a $600 bill. He walked in on a 50-room skating rink, on floors buried under half a foot of ice, to see the grand staircase a magnificent frozen waterfall. The pipes had frozen and burst...
...Ford's Pratt & Whitney engines by this month's end. Both Army and Pratt & Whitney engineers-mindful of the old cast-iron stove lid, which was almost as brittle as glass-were leary of steel castings until Ford testers showed that, while forged barrels burst at 5,000 to 7,000 lb. per sq. in., centrifugally cast barrels burst at 9,000 to 10,000 lb. "Moreover," said a Ford engineer last week, "$10,000 worth of centrifugal dies will turn out as many cylinder barrel blanks as a $110,000 forging hammer." Landing gear for bombers...