Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teaching 34 pupils. The old woman invited him to listen to a civics class. Wrote Fine: "She began a discussion of good & bad laws, complaining that this country is ruled by wicked men. 'Wait till the women get the right to vote!' she exclaimed in a seeming burst of inspiration. 'Some day they will, and then our laws will be better...
...Manhattan, Macy's grabbed up 150,000 of them, burst forth one morning last week with ads offering to sell them for 98? apiece, or three for $2.79. Gimbels, which had been selling the pens for $3.85 only the day before, slashed the price next day to 94?, or three for $2.59. (To twit Macy's further, Gimbels snidely pointed out that its own 62 Bollero, "which we consider a far superior pen," was selling for 88?.) Macy's, having sold 68,000 Reynolds pens at 98? in a day, knocked off 10? more. Gimbels went...
Flames suddenly flickered around one of the overheated stovepipes. In the screaming panic, a few of the dancers tried the windows. But the Wehrmacht had barred them during the war, when Loebel's was a prison-camp storehouse. The lights went out. In a terrible burst of flame, the roof collapsed...
Lanky Bob Critchton proved the hero of the day for the Elephants, by-passing his stumbling teammates and stepping over miscellaneous Deacons sprawling after the elusive ball to score 20 points, four of them in a crucial last minute burst of energy...
...illusion that their winters are never very cold, water mains are not buried deep enough and many homes have rickety, poorly insulated "afterthought" plumbing, laid along outside walls). London's News Chronicle carried a cartoon depicting two Englishmen viewing an icicle-hung pipe above the caption: "If burst pipes were good enough for my dear father, they're good enough for me." Arab delegates conferring with Ernie Bevin on Palestine (see below) found it too cold even before the huge fireplaces of St. James's Palace and hastily moved to Ernie's less drafty official residence...