Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Ottawa newspapers seized on Satirist Sim's story, Selective Service officials complained to his teachers. Donald Sim had to appear before the assembled student body, read a prepared retraction. The students who heard him preferred to believe his first story. When he mentioned Selective Service, they burst out laughing...
Something had gone wrong with the delicate synchronization of an air attack over Germany; escorting Mustangs had failed to rendezvous on time with the Fortresses. The mixup was expensive. A squadron of Focke-Wulf 1903 jumped the U.S. bombers. One Nazi fighter got in a long burst; a Fort exploded in flames. But instead of dropping out of the tight formation, the blazing wreck caromed crazily into the next Fort. That, in turn, hit a third. The third lurched into a fourth, and the fourth into a fifth. Other men of the squadron watched in horror as the five shattered...
...road wound and looped across a 4,000-ft. Bosnian mountain, chipped by landslides. Deep ravines would suddenly burst upon us like vistas from a plane. Mighty fir trees stood at attention and along the road peasants climbed off their carts to hold their oxen by the horns till we passed. Patrols of Partisan soldiers in grey-green uniforms with submachine guns slung on their backs saluted and shouted "Zdravo!" (Be in good health). We overtook a file of gloomy, bedraggled German, Croat Ustashi and Chetnik prisoners with Partisan guards in front and a Partisan girl, a rifle across...
Harvard tracksters made the best showing in the mile. Tuttle, with a final burst of speed, led the way in 4:41 and Robert Meckley placed third in this event. In the two mile run Edward Swett was second. John Kent took second...
...Cover) About 2 a.m. a signal rocket burst palely over the fortress island of Corregidor, Japanese batteries which had been shelling the island constantly for seven days opened up with a new and concentrated frenzy from their positions on the heights of Mariveles. Japanese infantrymen, ferried across the channel by small boats and bamboo rafts, swarmed onto the island's low-lying eastern shore...