Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergoing repairs after Italian bomb-hits last fortnight. Two small groups of big Italian bombers, each carrying two tons of explosive, appeared over the Rock one night after flying all the way from Italy (1,000 miles). A blaze of searchlights and a fierce storm of anti-aircraft fire burst from the Rock but the Italians got away after inflicting what they described as "serious damage" on the dockyard and supply dumps...
...distance, a low rumbling burst into a roar as a climbing pillar of flame shot skywards from the oil tanks on the docks. Incredulously, St. Maloans listened as the sound of gunfire rolled up from the harbor, ducked wildly for shelter as British bombers and fighter planes slanted down to their targets...
...Army. For the French Army, living in a shrieking, thundering, blood shot nightmare, last week was a period of progressive disintegration. Swarm after swarm of planes strafed them. Herd after herd of tanks charged them. Columns of armored motorcycles machine-gunned them, storms of artillery shells and grenades burst among them. Wave on fresh wave of constantly replenished German infantry pressed after them. They retreated fighting, day and night, through a time-space that had no measure because it brought no rest, and no features because the whole world was filled with smoke, noise and death...
...America," concluded the article in a burst of eloquence, "would be underestimating her own power of rejuvenation, if, by persisting in becoming encrusted in outworn prejudices, by allowing herself to be influenced by foreign suggestions, she should start on a course toward a foreign political goal, fundamentally foreign to her nature as well as being harmful, and one that once already turned out to be detrimental to her interests, one that today would mean that against her own interests she would be betting on the wrong horse...
...night a priest burst into our camp and told us in perfect French that the Germans were in the neighborhood and we had better get out of town. Naturally our first impulse was to believe him-just out of respect to a man of the cloth-but then we noticed that he disappeared immediately, and we soon realized that he was a fifth-column agent . . . . We have observed that the Nazi fifth column is efficiently organized to an unbelievable extent, with the idea of creating panic among civilians, rousing them to evacuate towns in the area where the Nazis want...