Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright, moonlit night when antiaircraft guns around Yontan airstrip in west central Okinawa burst into their barking din. A brisk enemy air raid was on. Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing. This was the debut of the Giretsu branch of Japan's fantastic suicide warriors...
...gave a complete report on German atrocities. The account of the Erla inhumanities, however, was in error in its reference to acetate. For instance, TIME said "guards unlocked the two doors and hurled in acetate, dousing the tinder-dry buildings" and . . . "in one split second the acetate ignited and burst into a roaring inferno...
...black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant, the crowd burst spontaneously into There'll Always Be An England...
...Again on May 10, 1940, when the Germans burst into the Low Countries (people strewed flowers before the British troops advancing into Belgium; three weeks later came Dunkirk; six weeks later, the fall of France; four months later, the blitz of London...
...Dorothy the light opera turned to tragedy in December 1920, when Caruso sang L'Elisir d'Amore at the Brooklyn Academy and a blood vessel burst in his throat. On Christmas eve he sang La Juive at the Metropolitan, on Christmas day he was ill with acute pleurisy. By spring he seemed to recover, and Dorothy took him home to Naples, where he died...