Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrific headache" President Roosevelt felt before he died was the result of a burst of blood, flooding his brain cells, paralyzing and killing...
...flotilla of small boats on the Danube, Red raiders leapfrogged ashore at night to attack from the rear. Infantrymen infiltrated the green Vienna Woods to the west, slammed over the main roads, then cut swiftly to the Danube, north of the city. Vienna was almost surrounded. Then the Russians burst through, by this week were battling in the parks and palace grounds in the center of the city...
...white opium poppies burst into bloom last week in the barren mountains of Northwest Mexico, setting the stage for melodrama. Troops rode through the hidden valleys, determined to stop the opium harvest. But the contraband harvesters, brown farmers and shepherds, bent on sharing the highest dope prices in history from over the border, eluded the soldiers...
...both sides of the ring - and overhead. . . . Having crossed the Rhine we will crack about in the plains of northern Germany, chasing the enemy from pillar to post." Winston Churchill wanted to crack about with them. He crossed the Rhine, had a close call when a German shell burst only 50 yards away. For a life that was dear to Britain, he was persuaded to retreat...
Through the night, the nitrate-laden Mapocho labored up the Chilean coast. The ship's bell tolled once-half-past midnight. Suddenly, explosions in the hold bounced the dinky, 63-year-old ship about. Flames burst above deck, firing lifeboats before they could be launched. The trapped crew and passengers scrambled for their lives. In half an hour the Mapocho went down, taking at least 83 people with...