Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot's quintet fell victim to a burst of hot shooting by Dunster in the last few minutes of play, 46 to 42. Stretch Crichion of the Elephants rang up the top score of the evening with 14 points, but his one man attack wilted against Dunster's smooth team-work and the seesaw game, 22 to 22 at the half, dropped to the Funsters...
...being slow-witted, reached in my pocket and handed him one," said Poindexter. Prosser then pocketed the bill, "sat back, looked smug, and smiled," and the whole class burst into laughter...
...While his wife and a motion-picture cameraman watched, Hollywood Stunt Man Alfred ("Dusty") Rhodes jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with three small parachutes attached to his back. He plummeted down 256 feet, disappeared in a burst of foam, surfaced, and bobbed quietly off on the tide-dead...
Such self-sacrifice moved the party to forgive Miss Li. She burst back into the campaign by hiring a plane to drop 50,000 leaflets. Cried one of her fans: "She's like Napoleon come back from Elba." But her opponent, Miss Liu, tearfully pulled a few wires. Result: the day before election, Miss Li's name was scratched from the list of candidates. "I'm so mad!" quivered Miss...
...knew who Yancey was. But the piece caught on, and the disc jockeys and record companies began hunting for Jimmy. They found him at the White Sox ballpark, cutting grass. He said he didn't even own a piano. Jimmy made a few records and had a brief burst of popularity, then had a stroke. His left hand stiffened up, and for a while he couldn't play...