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Word: burstingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barely airborne, it lurched. Its right wingtip dropped, scraped the runway. The plane veered crazily, crashed through a hangar with a shattering roar, and burst into flame. Inside its crumpled fuselage, students (some of whose safety belts snapped) crawled dazedly amid bright fire, or lay still. Sixteen managed to tumble out into the arms of hangar crewmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Holidays' End | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...plane fell, dragged its left wing, slammed into a hangar, split, and burst into flames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Crash Blame Not Set; Harvard Flight Is Delayed | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...cemetery, he answers contemptuously-naming the most unlikely place he can think of. That is just where the fascists find their man. Intimacy is the story of a frigid wife who leaves her dull, impotent husband to go away with a lover, changes her mind in a burst of muddled pity for her husband and returns to a loveless marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Nowhere to Nothing | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Every morning, promptly at 5:30, a burst of gunfire rattles the Colonia Juarez section of Mexico City. Old Don Carlos Rincon Gallardo y Romero de Torreros, Grandee of Spain, Marquis of Guadalupe, Duke of Regla, holder of 15 knighthoods, member of the Royal Corps of Gentlemen of Nobility of Madrid, last commander of President Porfirio Diaz' rurales,* is still waging symbolical battle against the Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Old Guard | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

When the hose was finally screwed in, it sprung two leaks and scattered spray over 50 more students. Then a tank burst open in another truck and flooded the front seat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firemen Wrestle Tiny Blaze In Chimney as Mob Exults | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

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