Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although a fast-breaking offense gave the Blue a five point margin in the first four minutes, the Feslermen were still in the game. Late in the first period they rallied to tie the score at 13 all, but Yale responded with a six point burst which left the Crimson staggering...
...During the historic fight, an egg laid by a canary on the Exeter hatched as a shell burst nearby. The battle-bred nestling, named Spee, now three months old (adolescent) was last week raffled off in Plymouth, brought ?17.165 for dependents of the Exeter'?, 61 dead. The winner: Stoker Smith...
With the spies came the bombs, sprayed by wave after wave of Soviet planes. In the clear cold air they flew high, trailing a thin line of vapor from their exhausts, dropping clusters of small bombs that burst into flames when they hit. Systematically the Russians went after every centre of communications: railways, telegraph and telephone centres, roadheads, bridges, factories. (They got a ski factory and the Finns were short of skis.) This meant that civilians had to bear the brunt of the bombings. Typical of the destruction wrought was the case of Sortavala, vital railway junction on the north...
...British Crown. To their compatriots, Peter Barnes and James Richards were far from ordinary criminals. They were Ireland's latest martyrs for whose death the hated British would some day pay in kind. Even as Barnes and Richards went to the gallows more I. R. A. bombs burst in Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, London...
Thousands of people, who disliked their propaganda, recognized in these films a fresh burst of the fierce, Russian creative energy, which, 50 years before, produced Dostoievski, Turgenev, Tolstoi in literature. Ten years later people still went to see them again and again, just as they reread the great Russian novels...