Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever Father Lombardi goes, the crowds turn out. In Milan and Palermo, crowds of 120,000 to 140,000 have stood in awestruck silence to hear him. When Communists are sent to heckle him-to "burst the bubble of Father Lombardi"-they often find themselves unable to speak; sometimes they are moved even to renounce their political faith. And Italians who have remained cynically on the political sidelines are stirred by this unpretentious priest as no one has stirred them since Saint Francis of Assisi...
Changes. To get off the spot, one member proposed at the next meeting that Watchdog Clair Taylor be made superintendent. The audience burst into cheers. The board unanimously voted him a five-year contract. But after thinking it over a week, Taylor declined the job. Instead he recommended that Governor Sigler ask for special powers to fire any board member he saw fit. Even some members of the school board were beginning to feel sheepish about their own conduct. Said Board Member Sadlowski: "I like to play politics, but clean politics. What we've been doing here...
...spite of unexpected Harvard aggressiveness and Jack Lavalle's monumental 43 saves, the Big Green kept control of the situation until it had amassed a 7 to 2 lead. At this point the smouldering violence responsible for 18 penalties burst into a fist fight between Dave Abbot and Whitey Campbell...
...wrote poetry for his beautiful neighbor, Fraulein Jenny von Westphalen, who, whenever she read one of his poems, "burst into tears of joy and melancholy." Sample: "If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt I shall fling my glove in the world's face; then I, a creator, shall stride through the wreckage...
...living composers had ever had so much of their music played in one week. Everyone seemed to burst out playing the knotty, dissonant music of Paul Hindemith...