Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head-on crash, No. 4's steel held, but the special's wooden cars burst into a knot of wreckage. Shattered gas lights and exploding gas tanks beneath the ancient coaches spread fire the train's length, set two nearby grain elevators ablaze, leaped to an Imperial Oil Co. storage depot where 80 drums of oil took fire. Rescuers saved as many passengers as they could before the flames drove them away...
...York Mirror ran the story that way, without bothering to check up on it. At one point in the hearing, said the Mirror, Marquard's "voice broke and the pitcher who once glared at enemy batters and dared them to hit his 'high, hard one' burst into tears...
...convention hall's one real moment of excitement followed the spontaneous burst of cheering with which General Dwight D. Eisenhower was hailed. But when Kansas delegates thronged forward in an attempt to set off an Eisenhower-for-President boom, National Commander Paul Griffith waved them back. The ovation ended after only 30 seconds, and with it the theory that the convention would play a major part in presidential politics. (Presidential Aspirant Harold Stassen, a delegate to the convention, got a thunderous ovation when he spoke in behalf of the "Marshall approach...
...Burst of Power. A last-place club last year, the Giants began to slug this year for reasons that have eluded analysis even by themselves.** With extra-base hitting and little else, they pulled themselves up to a pennant-contending position. Their leading home-run hitter is 34-year-old First Baseman Johnny Mize, who has hammered out 36 homers. Right behind him this week were young Outfielder Willard Marshall with 29; Veteran Catcher Walker Cooper with 26; and Bobby Thomson, rookie outfielder who has hit 23. Infielder Bill Rigney, who hit only three homers all last year, also climbed...
Finally after a lot of talking and shaking hands, someone started drawing the ticket stubs out of a bowl, and Vag found himself sitting forward in his seat. But someone else won, and there was a short, disappointed burst of applause. The girl gave him an "I told you so" look, and stalked away, while Vag ambled with the crowd through the exit and toward the bridge. Raffles were pretty good, he said to himself after a little consideration. Even if you didn't win, there was the excitement. And that was one thing that Harvard lacked, excitement...