Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performance was held up for a few minutes by the absence of one of the cast, who burst in just as the play went on the air, and a few crossed signals later on gave the actors some anxious moments, but aside from this there were no further hitches. The plot concerns a murder in the New Lecture Hall by a Nazi spy, alias a section man, who is tracked down by wide-awake members of the CRIMSON...
...unexpected burst of petulance, Murray charged that Washington was infested with "dishonest" representatives of big business "purportedly working for a dollar a year . . . obviously in the city of Washington sabotaging the national defense efforts...
Joseph Stalin said in Moscow's Red Square: "Another few months, another half year, one year maybe, and Hitlerite Germany must burst under the weight of her own crimes...
People on the ground heard the plane circling. Some, including two R.A.F. enlisted men, said its engines appeared to be missing. Some said they thought they saw a flare. Lower & lower it circled, barely missed the ground with one wing tip on the last turn. Then it crashed, burst into flames. Three bodies were hurled from the cabin, doused with gasoline. They burned with the rest, too close to the fire to be rescued. Of 20 passengers and crew, few could be identified when the wreckage cooled. Exception was the pilot, who still held a piece of the wheel...
...compass working and the helmsman steered by the flag-that is, he watched the flag to see which way the wind was blowing." Ensign Lyman and enlisted men tried to fire rockets, but two missed fire and they finally resorted to a Very pistol. Star shells burst to the south and flames from three burning tankers lit the seascape...