Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lindbergh's shooting role in the war ceased to be a scuttlebutt topic. A press association reported: Civilian Lindbergh, in 1944, as a technical adviser in the South Pacific, went out in a formation with Major Richard ("Dick") Bong. A Zero jumped them. Civilian Lindbergh fired one burst from the guns...
...unctuous lives of that infuriate people, gross good things were, coming to overwhelm me with Benedictions for which I had not bargained. Great oxen and camels and concubines were panting close behind me, he-goats and she-goats and rams of the breed of Bashan. My barns should burst their doors with plenty, and all my paths drop fatness. My face should be smeared with the oil of rejoicing. . . .My feet should be dipped in butter; I should sit under my fig-tree with my heel on the neck of my enemy, and my eyes stand out with fatness...
...with cardboard. Outside the grey-enameled door stood three husky sergeants at arms. Newsmen, bored yet anxious, lounged on the chintz-covered sofas, listening for sounds from behind the guarded door. Occasionally there were voices, strident and angry; then long stretches of muffled buzz-buzz. Finally there came a burst of applause and then, to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a full-throated rendition of Solidarity Forever...
India's smoldering nationalism burst into sudden flame...
...name would hardly have been printed. When they appeared, Randolph was in Moscow, trying to line up an interview with Molotov. In his room at Moscow's National Hotel, he picked up the telephone, asked in English for the French Embassy. When the operator replied in Russian, Randolph burst out: "I say, it's no good your speaking to me in that foreign language!" He kept repeating this Briticism until the Moscow telephone system found someone who could speak his language...