Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled a giant lever, the windows went up and paper tumbled in torrents, soon after the President's first words were heard. For minutes, a diapason of booming whistles from the grey ships in the North River seemed to drown out everything. Then, as if they might burst unless they let it off, people began to shout...
...took bravery and initiative for Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young to submit to the disfigurement enforced by the adapted Pinero plot. "Enchanted Cottage" is the story of a burst balloon: a manned veteran is thrown into a magic setting with an ugly girl, and in each other they gradually find an escape from the world neither can hear to face. In their enchanted cottage, she appears beautiful, and to her, he is no longer disfigured. The illusion must meet its test when their moral courage comes inevitably into contact with the world of reality...
...become the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). He found an impressionistic economic program in the scrambled economic theories of another member, Gottfried Feder. And he found something much more important - his voice. One night a visitor said some friendly words about Jews. Without thinking twice, Hit ler burst forth in speech. He had become an orator...
...split second the acetate ignited and burst into a roaring inferno. Cries of fright changed to screams of terror and of mortal agony that were soon drowned by the leaping flames and the bursting of hand grenades tossed into the open doorways...
Cerebral hemorrhage (also called "a stroke" of apoplexy) rarely strikes a person with normal, healthy arteries; a normal blood vessel can stand 14 times the ordinary blood pressure without bursting. The artery that burst in the President's head was presumably hardened and thickened by arteriosclerosis, which may be caused by old age, infection, overwork, worry, overexertion. A mere sneeze may raise blood pressure enough to rupture such a vessel...