Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crashed on a farm below and burst into flames, killing twelve passengers and a crew of three-the first casualties on a scheduled U.S. airline since August 1948. The damaged fighter plane crashed seconds later. A farmhand saw its pilot-26-year-old Lieut, (j.g.) Robert Poe of Fairfax, Va.-jump out just before it hit, fall like a flipped stone, and die in a field with his chute unopened...
Suddenly, plainclothesmen burst through the front door and windows, crying "Nobody move!" They swept up cards, chips and cash as evidence, herded together 20 prisoners, including a Mexican general, a wealthy Texan and several of the brightest lights of capital society. When the courts opened next day, the 20 were charged with gambling and released on bail (possible sentence: three months to a year in jail...
...They're Animals." Standing in the bright floodlights at the entrance, Mickey made a fine target. A burst of shotgun fire came from behind a signboard across the street. Special Agent Cooper, the man who was going to guard Mickey, toppled over with two slugs in his belly. Miss David was hit three times. A Cohen lieutenant dropped with a slug in his kidney, screaming. Only Mickey stood silent, without moan or shout. He had been drilled through the right shoulder...
...during the negotiations, 1,500 government reinforcements arrived from outside the city. Arevalo got his nerve back, withdrew his terms, reopened the battle. Government forces burst into Fort Guardia de Honor that night to find that 400 of its 600 defenders had made for the hills. Colonel Barrios had sought asylum in the Salvadorean embassy. The toll of the fighting was estimated at 200 killed, 500 wounded...
...shoved into a small room with a half-wrecked stove and a barred window without panes . . . The temperature [was] below freezing . . . Occasionally a bit of bread was thrown in to me . . . Every [few] days . . . NKVD men would burst in at night and carry out a most careful examination of the cell and of my person [including] the long beard which had grown during my imprisonment and which was stiff from pus that had run into it from my frostbitten face. I was kicked and beaten on these occasions...