Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes. The next day in a jeep we saw the tail flame on one robomb overhead suddenly go out and then the big frame of the bomb dove down on us in perfect silence, an inhuman Moloch coming to devour us. We threw ourselves to the ground and it burst nearby, breaking all the windows but not hurting anyone. I went to a café where I had been the first American three months previously and was kissed and embraced by the barmaid and given free drinks of cognac. The people told me: "We can stand the buzz bombs. That...
...ittai nan dai?" (What on earth is that?) cried a startled Japanese officer as a burst of elephant-gun fire whistled past his ears and a troop of half-naked Nagas leaped out of the bushes. He found out, but too late. He and his jungle patrol were wiped out. But last week other Japs who had survived the fight in northern Burma knew more about the Naga raiders and their leader. The half-naked tribesmen from northeastern India were directed by a white woman: pert, pretty Ursula Graham-Bower, 30, an archeology student who looks like a cinemactress...
...clearer weather, the resurgent Luftwaffe showed a burst of offensive strength. Hundreds of German bombers and fighters, supporting the ground attack, were engaged by the U.S. tactical forces, aided by British fighters from The Netherlands. In a wild series of dogfights the Germans lost 143 planes, the Allies...
...second attempt was less routine. A monster parade of Army reservists (some of them 80 years old) was scheduled to march down the Calle Florida. At 10 a.m., two armed men burst into the administration building at the Matanza Airfield south of Buenos Aires. At gun's point they forced mechanics to wheel out a plane. "Don't be scared." they told the grease monkeys, "we're doing this for the good of the country." The strong-arm men climbed aboard. The plane hopped off the field, cracked up after 300 yards. The two men crawled...
When he testified that his eldest son was killed during the Normandy invasion, the colonel had burst into tears. His other son had just departed for the Pacific theater. Both had graduated from West Point. Canella started his Army career 27 years ago, after ROTC at the University of Iowa, had less than four years to go to honorable retirement...