Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still marveling, he flew to Manila and marveled again: as the plane approached the city, the pilot circled over the hundreds of ships in the harbor, the vast supply dumps, the great runways at Nichols Field. When the plane landed, a crowd which had waited for hours burst past MPs to surround its famous passenger...
...procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. WRENs in uniform perched on the Admiralty roof; pajama-clad residents of Carlton House Terrace clung to chimneys. The cheers swelled in ear-splitting waves. By historic chance, V-J day came on the day the new Labor-dominated Parliament opened. In one burst Britons were hailing victory, the Crown and Socialism...
Seraglio in the Harbor. Contemptuous of the Consul's two-bit nation, Tripoli's Pasha cared little whether the U.S. fulfilled his increasing demands or not. Yankee merchantmen made good prizes, filling his coffers and slave pens as full as tribute would. Eventually, in a petulant burst of impatience, he declared war by chopping down the flagpole at the consulate...
While Harry Truman was sailing homeward, the atom burst upon the Japs and upon all mankind...
...first atomic bomb had been dropped. A few seconds after the flash, the shock wave from the blast reached the Enola Gay, several miles away, and rocked it like a giant burst of flak. From the men who had rung up the curtain on a new era in history burst nothing more original than an awed...