Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those of Army-camp construction (TIME, Sept. 15), the Senate Defense Investigating Committee last week went after the defense housing program. No sooner had the first witness opened his mouth than one of Washington's smoldering feuds-Federal Works Administrator John Carmody v. Defense Housing Coordinator Charles Palmer-burst into flame. Witness Carmody put his finger on Witness-to-be Palmer as Housing Mismanager...
There was no denying that, before Lindbergh spoke, anti-Semitism was one of the weeds that had already sprung up in America First's lush garden. But until Lindbergh publicly described the Jews as a danger to the U.S., anti-Semitism had not burst into full flower. General Wood and his associates were astonished at the country's reaction to Lindbergh's attack...
Tiny and glittering at 15,000 feet, a dozen four-motored Boeing Flying Fortresses (B-178) thundered distantly overhead. Down whistled 240 100-pound bombs. The eight blocks burst into a flaming, dusty cloud. When the smoke cleared, one of the pyramids was gone...
...beloved Dodgers ("Our Bums") had just clinched the National League pennant in Boston. Many another baseball town has gone wild over a pennant victory. But Brooklyn's faithful fans-victims of an inferiority complex provoked by the pompous, pennant-heavy New York Giants and Yankees across the river-burst into a demonstration last week that looked like New Orleans' Mardi Gras, New Year's Eve in Times Square and the 1918 Armistice...
...plants bloom faster when their flowers are picked? The dominant bud, explained Plant Physiologist John William Mitchell of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, apparently produces a hormone which inhibits growth of the other buds on the same stem. If it is snipped off, the uninhibited buds can burst into bloom...