Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realized that they had forced a fantastic break in the fortunes of war. They had seized a Rhine bridge intact. It was a moment for history. German prisoners ruefully reported that the deadline for blowing the bridge had been 4 p.m.-ten minutes after the Americans burst into Remagen...
Last week the results of long-range Allied strategy burst into full bloom. The little Allied drives, inching through meaningless territory, had turned into a coordinated, full-sized offensive. 'Its main plan: to cut up the Jap forces (some 50,000 men) in north-central Burma; to drive southward...
...deep defenses. Russian tank rumbled straight north, covered 62 miles in four days and came up to the Baltic dunes near Kolberg. Zhukov had timed his drive with a Baltic-bound thrust of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky; the timing was perfect. Rokossovsky's forces simultaneously burst into Koslin, 24 miles east of Kolberg, then fanned out eastward more than 20 miles along...
Before the war, Britain had a large share of Argentine trade. She would certainly have a large share after the war, since the two nations' economies are complementary. This forehanded burst of interest by British businessmen was a reminder that cold-shouldered Argentina was not alone in the world...
...movement of endless hordes of Russian men and armor, could check but could not permanently halt the hate-filled Russian juggernaut (apparently neither could an unseasonable thaw). The Germans, too, felt the Russian fury as tons of shells bored holes in the grey, low-hanging clouds and burst in sprays of red-hot fragments. On a 140-mile front, north & south of the Küstrin-Frankfurt sector, Zhukov kept the skies alight with his massed artillery as he fought to reach the Oder...