Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raid & Reform. Next day, off duty and in plain clothes, they burst into Alphee Lamarre's shoeshine parlor, carted two slot machines off to police headquarters. Within a week they were suspended by Mayor John Healey on the mysterious charge of "something they should have done, but failed...
...through most kinds of matter. When they hit an atom's nucleus, they produce a dangerous gamma ray and lose a little of their speed. Eventually they are "captured," but the nucleus which captures them is apt to be unstable. Sooner or later it may disintegrate with another burst of rays, alpha, beta or gamma. Some elements, riddled with neutrons, quiet down in minutes or hours. Others radiate thousands of years...
...pass the time while waiting, Pilot Marsh and members of his crew fished in the Little Big Horn. One morning while fishing they saw a mounted Indian burst through the brush on the water's edge. He pulled up his sweating pony, signaled with his carbine that he was friendly. They looked again and saw that he was a Crow known as Curley, one of the 7th Cavalry's native scouts. Curley hurried aboard the Far West, immediately gave way to "the most violent demonstrations...
...Give Up." Flames burst from an auto parked in no-man's land. A woman screamed from an apartment next the jail, begging for safe conduct through the erratic cross fire. An ambulance seeking to rescue the wounded inside the jail hastily retired before sniper bullets from the trees. For six hours the night echoed with the unequal exchanges between 73 deputies and their besiegers, now swollen to hundreds of shouting, wild-firing volunteers. Once, the barricaded deputies called out a threat to kill three G.I. hostages, jailed during the day, unless the assault ceased...
Through the day, more & more workers joined the Tudeh men and tempers rose with the mercury, which hit a Zoroastrian 160°. By nightfall, when officials still refused to negotiate-the mob's fury burst like a rogue oil gusher...