Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the hate of white men for their Negro neighbors burst forth in a lynching bee seldom equaled for viciousness in the state. It began at the jail in Monroe (pop. 4,000), only 40 miles east of Atlanta. There Roger Malcolm, 27-year-old Negro farmhand, was in trouble. He had stabbed a white man. He had been locked up for ten days. The white man was still in the hospital...
...what navies in the atomic age would have to face in insidious, invisible death if their ships escaped the bomb's first blast. The other chief lesson of Test Baker was that even so stout a hull as the Saratoga's was like matchwood if a bomb burst within half a mile. Transports and destroyers with much thinner skins, but twice as far away from the bomb, suffered hardly...
Tear Drops. In Okanogan, Wash., in the midst of a wedding ceremony, the bride burst into tears and precipitously fled when Groom Deputy Sheriff Eldon Barker accidentally dropped a tear-gas bomb...
...covered, radioactive waters of the lagoon still prevented a closeup survey of the damage to what was an 87-ship target array, but the tonnage scoreboard for the first two controlled tests of the bomb's power against naval strength heavily favored this submarine burst. The score thus...
Farmer George Boeshore looked up. The big four-motored, shark-bodied plane had passed & repassed over his father's farm all day, practicing landings at the nearby Reading, (Pa.) airport. But this time something was wrong. A plume of black smoke trailed from the plane, then burst into red flame. Farmer Boeshore saw the big craft drop into a glide and head for the field two miles away...