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Word: burstingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each other point-blank with rifles, cut each other's throats with bayonets. The Americans, British and Canadians attacked with auto-rifles, Tommy guns. The Nazis fought back with their quick-firing Schmeisser "burp-guns" and sowed mean little "Bouncing Betty" mines that spring up waist high and burst in a shower of steel scrap when a soldier steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: War and Weather | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...tank in front of us stopped beside a farmhouse crib where rice bags were piled high. A lanky fighting man-a lefthander-looked cautiously under the little house. He tossed a grenade, then pounced like a cat over the rice bags into the crib and fired a burst of four or five from his Browning. Another man followed him in and soon came out with an officer's sword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Last Charge | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Step Two. One of the marines who fancied himself a linguist-he had been studying the posters labeled "combat language"-took over after the grenade burst. "High de koy!" he shouted into the mouth of the cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: GONE TO EARTH | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

Somehow, the tired, half-starved, miserably equipped Chinese had suddenly burst into attack upon the enemy from all sides. The powerful Jap drive, within 175 miles of closing the last gap in a wall from Manchuria to the China Sea. faltered and stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: The Unpredictables | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...pulsing with Arrowsmithian fervor. His graduates have scattered over the earth, today are fighting fungi in Europe, Australia, China, India. Stake's popularity with youngsters is the talk of the campus. Told that her family planned to have steak for dinner, a faculty tot once burst into tears, sobbed: "But I like him. He's nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fungus Fighter | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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