Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, during a debate on the Administration's request for emergency powers over merchant shipping, he burst out against "a great many of the things we are doing [that] have not any proper connection with any legitimate defense program." He demanded that "when we are called upon to move into the actual range of fire," the U.S. people, through its Congress, make the great decision for itself...
Yosuke Matsuoka arrived home from Geneva in a burst of glory, still talking sweetly to the rest of the world. ("I have become convinced that we can tell the American people what we have at the bottom of our hearts.") The Emperor sent him a case of sake and a cask of fish. But temporary fame began to fade. In one of his usual quick moves he resigned from the Diet and the Seiyukai Party to work for the dissolution of all parties in the interest of "national solidarity." thus becoming in late 1933 forerunner of a movement that...
Like infuriated hippos Kidwell's tanks plowed ahead. Forty feet from the antitank gun they burst out of the woods, a medium and two lights-rearing on their hind treads as they cracked through the fence and crossed the road. The gun crew swung their piece, first on one, then on another. In battle they would not have had a chance. They were ruled out of action...
...professional football player, a taxi driver in his youth, veteran of World War I, Dan Arnstein had pounded his way up until he owned and operated the Terminal Taxicab System of New York City. Smooth with success, hard-muscled with exercise, at 50 he had offered himself in a burst of patriotic fever to the Government for $1 a year...
Pilot Vittorio Mussolini once gulped with delight as he watched his bombs burst amid Abyssinian tribesmen with "the impression of a budding rose." Foujita thinks that better artists than Vittorio should see sights like that. He plans to make at least 100 flights in warplanes. Then, he hopes, he may be able to "represent bombing situations" and "catch the true colors of clouds...