Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first weeks of victory the release of millions of displaced persons ("D.P.s," the armies called them) threatened to create a civil anarchy in Germany far greater than the social dislocation of war. Hungry, sick, and bitterly vengeful, the slaves and prisoners burst their bonds and started home, sometimes looting and destroying, sometimes killing. But in remarkably short order the hordes were corralled, deloused, fed, shown movies and systematically sorted out. The U.S. and British armies had done most of the good work. Now they were turning the job over to UNRRA specialists...
...quiet. Far from quiet was the clamor against Padilla as a too obedient friend of the U.S. State Department. In the interest of Pan-American unity, he had favored admitting Argentina to the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Anti-U.S. feeling, always smoldering in Mexico, recently burst into flame with a series of speeches and newspaper articles against Padilla. His collaboration with the U.S., they charged, had turned into "entreguismo" (selling out). A damaging rumor went the rounds-that U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith was urging President Harry S. Truman to use U.S. influence to make Padilla President...
...sitting at the piano when Imogene burst in. The Kovacs brothers were a little startled. She demanded to know what they were doing there Al said: "I'm waiting for Faith," and walked toward the stairway. As James Kovacs remembered it later, there was the crash of a shot and Al dropped. Imogene fired two more shots. Then she demanded: "Now will you leave...
Everywhere Franklin Roosevelt went, a well-meaning band was apt to burst into Home on the Range, thinking it his favorite song...
...Zeke (old-type Zero) dropped a delayed-action bomb which penetrated the Bunker Hill's flight deck, went out through the ship's side and burst over the water. But the Zeke itself crashed on the after half of the carrier's deck, crowded with 34 loaded planes, ready to go. That kindled a raging fire. Then a Judy (dive bomber) dropped a 500-pounder through the flight deck, and crashed into the base of the island structure. The Bunker Hill's fight for life...