Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corporal Lodzinski went after water for some wounded, and caught a bomb burst in the back. He was many months in hospital, was then honorably discharged. Private Davidowicz had broken in action, had been dishonorably discharged for leaving his post in the face of enemy fire. He had his own excuse for that: suffering from concussion, and bullet and stab wounds, he had abandoned his gun to go after a wounded...
...task force of Mudge's troopers, under Brigadier General William Curtis Chase, swung wide into the foothills flanking Manila. At 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3 (25 days after the landing at Lingayen), the 2nd Squadron of the historic 8th Regiment burst into the city from the east. So the 1st Cavalry Division had won the race-and not even the Buckeyes could say there was no justice in the fact: the 1st had sworn to strike a blow for their onetime brigade commander, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, now in Jap hands. This...
...since the Red Army burst into the Balkans had there been such a surge of Allied gratitude and respect for Russia as followed its Army's burst into the Reich. There was not only respect for the drive as a military feat-for mass and power and accomplishment, no Allied campaigns of World War II compared with...
Down below, the crowd had been mouse-quiet, so that it even heard the whirring of the newsreel cameras. Now it burst into polite, gloved applause...
...considerable distance from one another and murmur softly. Apparently each Bororo is muttering to himself. Actually they are telling stories which are the primitive stuff of all humor. Sample: "Once upon a time the jaguar had a fight with the rabbit. The rabbit won!" Then all the Bororos burst out laughing...