Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden burst of speed last week, the U.S. Congress added up the major foreign-aid bills for the current fiscal year, earmarked more than $7 billion for the nation's postwar allies and the occupied countries. The House and Senate quickly agreed on a bill authorizing $1,314,010,000 in military aid for European partners in the Atlantic defense pact (see below...
...dessert, there was Palmiro Togliatti, who appeared in person to make a fiery speech in which he dwelt smugly on Russia's possession of the atomic bomb. After the boss's speech, the carnival ended in a burst of fireworks, followed by glowing reports from the party treasury that the Florence carnival had boosted the total sum collected for the Communist press beyond 300 million lire (slightly less than half a million dollars...
...minute hand neared midnight on the last day of Congress' session, Peronista deputies sang the Argentine national hymn and then boisterously burst into Peronista Boys. Said one Radical deputy as he surveyed the week's work: "I move that the Argentine flag be flown at half-mast...
When the drinks (excellent as always) and the fish chowder (pungent and tasty) had been disposed of, a joyous soul arose and cried, "Is there a Yale man in the house?" The band, cleverly revealed on the balcony, burst into Ten Thousand Men of Harvard." The logic of this was sublime compared with what was to follow...
From the appearance of this article two years ago until the whole matter burst into the headlines on April 13, 1949, the controversy was kept a secret by Father Feeney and other Catholic officials. Recently, however, the facts of the intervening period have become known...