Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This, with obvious geographical transpositions, was the Russian position early this week, after the new German burst in the Ukraine...
During the Crimean War, the royal Britons visited their French ally, Napoleon III. "When Bertie knelt, in kilts, before the tomb of Napoleon I, the Parisian sky produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love for Bertie, but not for his father. Napoleon III "was simply not a respectable ally." For one thing, there had been that "rather dreadful féte champétre . . . when the Emperor disappeared all evening with Madame Castiglione in the shrubbery, and the Empress fainted with mortification...
With a roar and a burst of flame his sleek P39 crashed among the houses of Hempstead (pop: 21,000), south of the air base. Mothers' cries, neighbors' shouts told the incoherent rest of the story of one of the saddest crashes in history. The P39 had fallen near three children at play, doused them with flaming gasoline. That day they died...
...Battle of Crete last week reached Puget Sound. The Bainbridge Review (a suburban weekly, brightly edited by young Seattlites) burst out with a banner headline: REVIEW VIOLATES A NATIONAL CENSORSHIP. Prefacing its editorial with the statement, "For several weeks now the Review has been torn between a normal desire to obey an unofficial Government censorship and what we feel deeply to be a solemn duty to our readers," the Review announced that the British battleship Warspite was in the Bremerton Navy Yard near Seattle for repairs. The Review's reasons...
They marched also among the specialized terrors of sounds and silence. "The silence burst out, now at one place, now at another, with the suddenness of a cry." In Belleville, first night under shell fire, not an officer was to be found. "At that moment . . .we lost our confidence in our leaders, the confidence that is the most elementary requirement for any army that wants to win." They never had reason to regain it-except in a few true officers. The other officers liked to say they loved France better than Hitler but Hitler better than Blum. The best officer...