Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill . . . writes the death sentence for effective price, wage and rent stabilization. . . . The law of supply & demand will blow the price bubble up further and further until at length it will burst...
...many undergraduates in the year 1946, a copy of the Crimson was a new and peculiar object, a suspicious offspring of the wartime cocoon (label: Harvard Service News) from which the Crime burst in 16-page auspiciousness on April...
...Northern, had been a B. of L.E. official 16 years when he became its Grand Chief Engineer (a title he loves to roll on his tongue) in 1925. Besides the title, he also inherited the union's sour financial ventures-notably a bank and a $15,000,000 burst bubble in Florida real estate. His inaugural address: "I am no banker...
Carefully Antonio bandaged his eyes with torn bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped...
...admit that he suspected his wife, Corinne, of being unfaithful to him while he was away in the Pacific. But when he came back to San Francisco on the morning of V-J day and found that Corinne was not at home, years of suppressed doubt and jealousy burst like a boil. When at last Mark discovered Corinne at a chichi cocktail party, her touchy manner made him furious. "I missed you," she insisted. "You know that. [But] you've got to give me a chance to get used...