Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward its hour, the Red Army on the south Russian front had waited quietly while up north titanic battles raged. Last week, as Rumania broke with the Axis, the hour, timed with exquisite nicety by the Russians, struck in thunder. From the Carpathians to the Black Sea, the Russians burst forward in their most spectacular and possibly most decisive molnia (Russian version of blitz) of World...
Cockpit to Prison. His left leg was broken and punctured by an ack-ack burst. His back was terribly burned by raw gasoline. The foot of his injured leg was pinned rigidly under the rudder...
When dapper, high-strung Brigadier General Jacques Leclerc, commander of the French Second Armored Division, burst into Paris, he carried a cane. It was the same cane with which, when he fought the Axis in Africa, he used to draw sketches in the sand at military conferences...
...Montreal's C.N.R. terminal last week, 10,000 people surged forward to welcome him with flowers and posters saying: "Bienvenue, Camillien Houde!" (Welcome, Camillien Houde!). Hoarsely they sang Il a gagné ses é paulettes, French Canadian equivalent of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Houde burst into a torrent of French: "I believe that someone would have preferred to see me back in a dress suit, lying in satin, rather than back alive...
Besotted soldiers went to the shelter openings, called on the men to come out. There was a burst of machine-gun fire as each emerged-the parish priest, village officials, farmers, townsmen, 23 men in all. Women and children, cowering in the tunnels, were not molested (but one infant was killed by a fire bomb tossed into a shelter...