Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approaching the field he was suddenly blinded by a burst of stinging smoke, burned by red flames. The ship was out of control and coming down fast when he went over the side, landed precariously in a tree...
...implication, fullest fury of the storm burst over William Hammatt Davis, who had succeeded Wisconsin University President Clarence Dykstra as chairman of the Defense Mediation Board. He sponged off in his corner, unperturbed...
From North Carolina's port side burst a flaming earthquake-a roar that shattered its way to the marrow of man, a lurid flame that seemed to lick the water for hundreds of yards and lift itself above the ranging top of the foremast. The deck slid to starboard, oscillated to port, leveled off handily, rode steady again...
This deal burst like a bomb on the sweltering, restless convention. The Reuther group bellowed: "Cheap politics." Dick Frankensteen's lame explanation that he did not want to "crucify" the North American local got more boos than cheers. President Roland Jay Thomas, as inept as a June bug, bumped his head against both sides. Many a cautious delegate believed that a Red purge might do U.A.W. more harm than good. But the Reuther group, angry at Frankensteen's flipflop, were out for blood...
...latest book, from exile in Britain, Rauschning told how these words had inspired him: "End of the Revolution, Conservative Revolution, perhaps Revolution of Reconstruction-call it what you will! . . . Every revolution sets out to burst oppressive limitations. But the current of destruction introduced by the great secular movement of human emancipation is going far beyond the natural rhythm of destruction and rebuilding. Here it is no longer a question of relative destruction and losses, but of absolute and irrevocable sacrifices of the very nature of man, of the human qualities formed by the untold thousands of years...