Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive, spinning wheels banged across the top of his car, bent it down a full six inches, left him unhurt. The plane lurched on, shearing off light poles, slammed back to earth, slid with a crash of metal, and stopped beside a stagnant pond. Then it burst into flames...
...Brooklyn exporter named James Boyle got so mad at the delay, said Kerschbaumer, that he burst in with two "very apparently gangster types" with guns, demanded 50,000 tons of steel "or else." Durham, a husky exMarine, happened to walk in just then and "removed them of their guns...
Then the Army & Navy Bulletin burst out with the news that Mom's husband had been no rear admiral, but a World War I buck private. Mom still insisted, a little lamely, that the Skipper was a rear admiral. But newsmen, whom she greeted in a sky-blue negligee, got several versions of his career: he had really been only a Navy captain, but she had boosted his rank to help "open Washington doors"; he had been a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt and was bitten by a cobra while hunting with Roosevelt in Africa; he had been called...
...waxy "translation" of Utah's Bryce Canyon. Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A slightly vapid piece of music, but with vague whisperings of the strivings and yearnings which burst out in the composer's Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. Performance: fair...