Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiappe got a bird's-eye view of British and Italian naval forces fighting a battle. Above the warships planes dodged and swooped in an air fight. One of them (British, according to the Italians) caught sight of the Chiappe plane, got on its tail, fed it a burst of machine-gun bullets...
...rolling under bare steerage way, saw a sight that made them forget the dull, grey weather. They heard the thunder of engines, saw the mist ripped open by a trim, broad bow, saw a tiny boat skim by, skittering off the tops of waves, pelting through others in a burst of spindrift. On her bridge they caught a quick glimpse of hooded men, goggled, drenched with spray, hanging on behind a tiny windshield. On her deck, if they got a good look, they saw four torpedoes, two glassed-in turrets housing twin machine guns. Then she was gone, a bellowing...
...epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galatz, site of the German submarine base, suffered severely; and Giurgiu, principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories reduced to mangled heaps. In Campina, thickly populated oil town, refinery chimneys toppled, houses collapsed, and pipelines burst, dousing the ground with a gummy and inflammable threat. In the heavily guarded Ploesti field a few fires broke out, were later reported extinguished. Buckled tracks, collapsed bridges, severed telephone cables and German censorship stopped traffic and disrupted communications throughout Rumania, prevented the true extent of destruction from becoming known...
Since his indictment last spring, Mr. Hopson had not been well. He expected to blow up and burst, was prone to a sensation of "wandering around about through cellars and basements," had to be bathed by force. Doctors found him to be suffering from involutional melancholia and depressive psychosis. But to Hugh A. Fulton, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, this was just another Hopson dodge to escape justice. After months of confab, Government medicos declared him legally fit to defend himself...
Settling in Saskatchewan, far from Peter Verigin, the Dukhobors were baffled and confused, succumbed to faction, fanaticism, hallucination. With $30,000 from kind Philadelphia Quakers the Dukhobors bought horses, cows, tools-only to set free the animals and destroy the metal tools in a sudden burst of sympathy for their "little brothers" (the beasts) and "the men tormented in the mines." They even refused to kill grain-eating gophers, which they snared and then freed in other people's fields. Singing groups of Dukhobors often marched off into nowhere looking for the Promised Land...