Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Navy told about the animals' ordeal. At Test Able (the air-burst bomb), there were 3,030 white rats, 176 goats and 146 pigs on 22 target vessels. Some were near the blast center, some far off. Some were sheltered, some exposed. About 10% died at once of air blast; 10% more had died, chiefly of radiation sickness, by late August. The same number, many presumably injured were killed for examination...
...editorial page to match. Publisher Choate once told a newsman: "It is natural that as sound business interests own the paper, we shall reflect their point of view." But the Republican Herald works hard not to offend anybody in Democratic Boston. It prides itself on an occasional burst of virility. Five days after Mayor James Curley was convicted of fraud last January, the Herald was the only Boston paper to rise up and say (in a carefully modulated voice) that it was perhaps a little regretful that a city of 770,816 should be run from a jail...
...chorus at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, whose members burst into song for about $14 each a night, has never been one of the company's greatest attractions. For its 61st annual season, opening in November, the Met's board of directors proposed to fire 16 choristers, reduce the chorus' size from 94 to 78. The notes it promptly heard from the American Guild of Musical Artists (president: Baritone Lawrence Tibbett) were decidedly unmusical. The union insisted that its own board should have the say on how big the chorus should be and who could be fired...
...Firing a burst of compressed air down Perelman's gullet, the dentist chortled:"Well, friend, you may as well know the worst. These are the teeth of an 80-year-old man. . . . Who put those [inlays] in - a steamfitter? . . . Miss Smedley, how many times have I told you not to count the patient's money in front of him? Take the wallet outside and go through it there. . . . H'm'm'm, a cleft palate. . . . While we're at it, I think we'd better tear out those lowers with a jackhammer...
After floating clear of the bridge, Taylor poured on a final burst of speed, but Grant edged him out by about two feet, finishing with a time of 4:39 minutes...