Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stared about him with the terror of a cornered animal. Then he ran. Through the door he crashed, out into the Yard, across the Square, unmindful of cars, and into a hardware store. "Give me the biggest axe you've got!" he screamed. Panting he rushed back and burst into the Reading Room. Picking out the nearest chair he closed one eye, sighted, and swung the great axe above his head...
Four of her passengers were dead. So were the three men of her crew. Clarence Moore's body was wedged under Eddie Rickenbacker in the wreckage. Rickenbacker shouted to his fellow passengers not to light cigarets. The gasoline tanks had burst, and he could not move. His hip, nose and ribs were broken...
...usual standards for judging those officers. Author of this indictment was Lieut. Colonel Thomas Raphael Phillips, a Coast Artilleryman who has long had a name for his acrid, authoritative writings in military journals. In the sprightly, unofficial but respected Infantry Journal, Colonel Phillips aimed a steel-jacketed burst at his brother officers and superiors. His essay (Traditionalism and Military Defeat) was also a chilling message to the whole U. S. Excerpts...
...time. Included in the novel's 496-page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town, to the Tower of Constance, to the Alamo, to anything that represents man's constant war against an unfriendly world...
...Freshmen, displaying a burst of pop early in their match, put six goals away in the first period, and from them on kept affairs well in hand...