Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gustavo Cuervo Rubio, for help. Under Cuervo's guidance he plunged across the street, burst into the Council shouting: "Unconstitutionality!" Like a match in a powder keg, this touched off a fiery debate. Presently Mayor Menocal gave up, sat down. Now thoroughly humiliated-as the Communist-keyed majority of the Council intended he should be-Mayor Menocal decided they all might just as well hold the induction ceremonies in the Municipal Building...
...reply to the Messerschmitt fighter-bomber was an improved model Hurricane mounting twelve machine guns instead of eight in its wing-edge. As described, one burst from its dozen guns is enough to chop up an enemy plane...
...Nazi spokesmen burst into howls of rage at being strafed, shrieked that the nocturnal raiders were "night gangsters," their bombings "organized terrorism...
...First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill laughed at seniority, advanced sea pups over sea dogs, shifted the navy from coal to oil to increase cruising range, shifted (secretly) from 13.5-inch guns to 15-inch guns to increase fire range, founded the air arm. He burst into tears when Asquith told Parliament that World War I had begun-but the fleet was ready...
...Harvard Crimson has recently confessed in a burst of lyric journalism that "If you notice an extra sprig of parsley on your potatoes or a red cherry on your grapefruit, you will know that Harvard's first dictitian, Miss Ruth E. Trickett, is jazzing up the menus." (Should we inquire what the food used to be like in that most venerable of educational institutions?) This fact in itself is not at all startling, but the history of this dictitian is, on the contrary, very much...