Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...influencing public opinion. Willkie grinned. "Mr. President," said he, "have you heard of the first meeting of your fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, and Albert Lasker, the advertising man?" The President had not. Willkie told how Lasker traveled to Oyster Bay, how Teddy, all smiles, teeth and outstretched arms, burst in to greet him, crying out, "Mr. Lasker, I've been told that you have the master advertising mind in the country." Said Lasker hastily, "It would be presumptuous for any one to claim that, in your presence...
Japan. Glory wears thin against the grindstone of saddened days. It was all glory in Tokyo four years ago as the war for Asia burst. "Without cessation," wrote an American correspondent, "from 5 a.m. till noon . . . departing troops rode to military barracks in trucks, busses, streetcars and taxicabs, completely blocking traffic along the main highways. The truckloads of cheering soldiers, waving flags and banners and singing war songs, followed each other so closely that they extended in a line as far as the eye could see. . . . Children in the street waved flags and joined in the war songs." Factories blazed...
However it started, one night there was a burst of shooting along the amorphous border. Soon a grown-up battle was raging, with machine guns and artillery backing up the rifle fire, with Peruvian warplanes roaring overhead. Quito said Peruvian bombers had destroyed the military barracks and a church in the Ecuadorian town of Chacras, that frontier forces had attacked at other points on the frontier. Lima claimed that Ecuadorian troops had tried to cross into Peruvian territory, had been driven back. After two days the fighting died down...
...four-year feud between Philadelphia's Coal and Autogiro Tycoon Raymond Pitcairn and his ousted gardener literally burst into flame last week. The sprawling rubbish dump the gardener has been carefully developing right across from Pitcairn's neatly manicured estate caught fire, and the Bryn Athyn fire department cheerfully let the eyesore burn...
This was just what meteormen were looking for to explain why some meteors apparently smite the earth, then vanish without a trace. If a contraterrene meteorite wandered into the solar system and met up with terrene matter, the respective sub-atomic charges would cancel out in a great burst of energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater...