Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slightly luckier, guy. Cried they: "If McGee got out, why shouldn't we?" When bewhiskered Colonel Peyton C. Winlock, post commander, tried to quell the riot with dignity and authority, someone let fly a boulder which caught him on the back of the head. Dazedly he retired. Fires burst out in two widely separated buildings: a barracks and the infirmary. Four Indianapolis fire companies were summoned to help firemen control a conflagration, spread by a brisk breeze...
...barracks sally-ports, sudden as buckshot, burst cluster after cluster of one of the best-disciplined groups of young men in the world. Uniformed in grey and white, studded with shiny brass and topped with towering, plumed "tarbuckets," they fell in quickly, wheeled sharply, flowed in one trim mass onto the broad green Plain that tops the granite-cliff shores of the Hudson at West Point...
...only dependable man in the Utopia was Grandfather Bucklin, a rangy 88-year-old who strode the porch in a bathrobe and forbade the children to utter a word. Right after Grandfather Bucklin's funeral, the hitherto-speechless Aleck burst into a torrent of verbiage that left his mother speechless with admiration. It is no wonder, says Biographer Adams, that Woollcott grew into "a devoted crusader for free speech and independent thought...
...sister's clothes was his favorite pastime. By the time he went to school, the boy was a weak-eyed, skinny mollycoddle and prig, already "pathetically conscious of being a misfit." He would jeer at anyone who had a squint or a clubfoot; homely girls made him burst into hysterical laughter. He thrilled with the hope of being kidnapped. Charles Dickens and Louisa M. Alcott were his idols. To confidants he showed a collection of photographs of Broadway celebrities, remarking: "That's what I'm going to be ... a dramatic critic." He kept a diary, whose cryptic...
...latest burst of showmanship, the Met has exhibited its Greek treasures in rooms newly decorated in pleasingly subtle colors. On the prize exhibit-a magnificent 600 B.C. Kouros (Youth)-six concealed spotlights play. This accent on youth underlines a thesis: the vigorous, thunderous centuries before the golden age of Pericles are Greece's glory quite as much as the familiar classical period of the 5th Century...