Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sheriff Ennis is still in dispute. Anyway, the sheriff let go with his submachine gun. Felix tottered backward, died in his daughter Victoria's arms. Geronimo's uncles, Domingo and Antonio, came running from the back of the house. Ennis wheeled on the porch, fired another burst. They fell dead, too. Economical Ennis had fired only five shots-two for Felix, two for Dom and one for Tony...
...fourth national show with 2,021 entries, mostly canaries, including such varieties as curly feathered frills, big Norrich plain-heads. An Indian hill myna, who will outtalk a parrot any day, welcomed visitors with: "Hello, Joe! You can go to hell, too." ¶ Twenty men wearing American Legion caps burst into the La Crescenta, Calif, home of retired Fruit Grower Hugh Hardyman, who was holding a meeting of the local Democratic Club. The invaders addressed the audience as "Progressive Citizens of America," announced that they would allow ten minutes for the meeting to break up. Then they withdrew. Arrival...
...Churchill, who had worked as usual the night before, rested in the afternoon. At dinner Churchill was grim and silent. At 9 p.m. he asked Sawyers, the butler, to bring the radio to the table. It was a $15 portable that Harry Hopkins had given him. There was a burst of music as he tuned it; then the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Churchill jumped up and started out of the room...
...Haven was a quiet city last night, but a city obviously ready to burst at the seams momentarily, as thousands of Crimson adherents poured into the gothic fortress that is Eli Yale. Minions of the law, everywhere in evidence, had little trouble, but spent their long hours moving efficiently through the streets. Last night the Crimson carried off most of the honors to be had in New Haven. Here for the game and excited about it, the visitors out-cheered, out-sang, and out-shouted their hosts throughout the clear, cold evening hours...
...revolutions swing to the right after their initial leftist burst, according to many scholars. It would seem that the Lefthanded League's rebellious uprising had thus perambulated, for Thursday night's elections dumped founder David C. Poskanzer out of the saddle and installed a new group of leaders...