Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jerusalem was the noisiest since Partition Day. Arab Legion artillery and mortar shells crashed into the Jewish quarters of the new town, kicked up clouds of white smoke and dust. Red tracers streaked across the domed roofs of the Old City. At dawn the Jews sent one last burst into the Arab positions. A shell exploded on the balcony of an Arab hospital, killing an attendant. As he was carried out of the ward, head hanging limply, a nurse whimpered: "He is dead. Did you see him die? He would have lived if the truce had started half an hour...
...Israel's sovereignty; Arabs were still flatly refusing to acknowledge even the existence of the Jewish state. Said Transjordan's King Abdullah: "There is in Palestine a fire which must be extinguished. The Western states wish to bury this fire under embers which might rekindle and again burst into flame...
Time changeth all things. But one boil that will never burst was summed up in the cry of Miss Lois Salsgate, a petite Middlebury alumns. "Every Harvard man I've seen," she groaned, "has had a little green bag over his shoulder and a posture to match...
Eversharp brought out new models, improved the Biro system, and lost money replacing the insides of its pens free of charge. Furthermore, it spent heavily on plants to meet the demand that ballooned during the ball-point fad. It fell hard when the balloon burst...
Yale, helped along by a 20 point burst in the last two events, the discus and shot, beat Army for the team title by 1/6 of a point, 45 7/10 to 45 8/15. Penn, with 34 points, was third, followed by Princeton, 28; Navy 22 11/15; Columbia, 21; the Varsity; Dartmouth, 12 1/5; and Cornell...