Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franco repression. But the Caudillo acted first, suddenly uncovered for U.N. gaze a Communist cell conspiring in Madrid, claimed to have bagged the entire central committee of the Spanish Communist Party. He clapped some 70 persons into prison incommunicado. Next day, as if with damp fuses, 14 bombs burst belatedly in front of Madrid food shops...
Uruguay's President Gabriel Terra, recovering from an assassin's bullet, urged him not to ride through the streets of Montevideo, F.D.R. burst out laughing. "I can't see where I run any risks," he exclaimed, poking his fellow-president in the ribs. "You are the president they...
...fast for a long time," says David S. Biddle '49, of his handsome 1932 Cord convertible, "the rear floorboards burst in to flame...
Each nation may send five representatives and five alternates. With their camp followers they will total some 2,000 souls; Manhattan hotelmen feared their already jammed buildings would burst. It was encouraging that Russia was fielding its first team, led by Molotov and Vishinsky...
Until recently, when his art began to pay off, Knaths got along by part-time art teaching and carpentry. Said he, mildly, when he heard the news of his $1,000 Carnegie prize: "The furnace has burst, and I suppose we'll use the money to get it fixed...