Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When NDAC burst into being, it was McReynolds who knew where there was some spare office space in the Federal Reserve Building, deliciously air-cooled.* Now nearing completion on Washington's "Triangle" is the new, massive Social Security Building. Mac thinks it's just the place for the National Defense Advisory Commission, just the place for Army headquarters, now in the Munitions Building. Social Security officials don't like the plan, but with McReynolds behind it there's not much they...
...Church unity. "A new burst of vitality without a simultaneous drive for unity may very easily split the Church wide open...
...Macabre spelled death for one of its performers. Later Violist Jacques Tushinsky was struck and killed by a bus. Not until the orchestra was on its way back to the U. S. last week was Maestro Toscanini informed of the death. Whereupon the white-haired, 73-year-old conductor burst into tears, refused all nourishment but fruit juice...
Then "the final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. ... It soared twice as high as any they had had before; and the moment it had burst, Mrs. Miniver remembered. 'Brightness falls from the air'-that was it! The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness...
With a tumultuous burst of cheering they greeted the Führer as he strode out on to the swastika-draped platform, followed by Field Marshal Herman Göring and Deputy Nazi Party Leader Rudolf Hess. Nervously they waited for him to begin. But as his words fell on the thick stillness there was no hint of an ultimatum to England. For an hour and a half he spoke, ramblingly, vituperatively, torrentially, shouting out a paean of victory, deviously justifying all his acts of aggression...