Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until he was interrupted again). This lengthy process was expedited by the Air Corps' Major General Henry H. Arnold (now Deputy Chief of Staff) who recently approved the B-26 after Martin officials had assured him that it was ready for service. Said "Hap" Arnold, with a miraculous burst of speed: "Never mind about that [further testing]. You start sending us the planes as fast as you can and don't stop until we say when...
...burst of oratory Defendant Diez's counsel ripped at the evidence, swore it had been twisted, that exonerating portions had been skipped over. Other Diez sympathizers blamed the whole charge on Nazi-inspired anti-Semitism working through a controlled press. They pointed out that Diez himself had demanded the trial to put a stop to malicious gossiping...
...late as last May, Scribner's Commentator had as its top name-writers Playwright J. P. McEvoy, Crooner Kate Smith, Comedian Fred Allen. But in August it burst forth with Charles Lindbergh on the cover, a flattering story about Lindbergh inside, pieces on the New Deal's international sympathies and "warmongers...
Suddenly its left wing dropped and the arrow-straight line of its flight path was broken. Inside the cabin a woman screamed. There was a horrible crash as the big silver monoplane broke an electric line. Beyond, only a block from the field, she hit the ground, burst asunder. From houses near by, residents of Cicero Avenue rushed to the wreck, carried out six dead, four who were to die before week's end, six who survived...
...under the circumstances, Wendell Willkie singing Siegfried would have sold as well, or a tenth-rate road company of Pagliacci. The audience gave a burst of applause to a capable newcomer, Hungarian Baritone Alexander Sved, as the king's assassin. For the rest, the audience behaved as if it expected to be applauded itself...