Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clouds burst, lightning played among the pine trees; at 2:45 one morning a bolt hit the powerhouse. In the President's room candles soon flickered...
...Burst into unseemly shouts of "Hi! Ho! Hum!" when His Majesty's Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod rapped thrice on the Commons' door to summon them before the bar of the Lords...
...mile crust.* There was much rain everywhere last winter and spring. In Germany, Jugoslavia and Mexico, heavy summer rains last week swelled rivers and lakes far above their margins, flooding mankind out of house, harvest and life. At León, Mexico, the Santiago and Gomez rivers burst out upon inhabitants by night, sweeping cattle and humans through the streets, crumbling adobe structures beneath falling walls of water. Confused despatches estimated the destruction far above the flood of 1889 when hundreds of Leónites lost their lives. Terrific lightning displays accompanied the deluge in the Lake Constance region, Germany...
Along the Danube, 40,000 men, with 10,000 horses and wagons, strove frantically to strengthen dikes and dams, to no avail. Dams burst. Dikes spouted. The Bačka region, above Belgrade, one of Europe's richest granaries, became a broad lake. Tens of thousands of city dwellers fled for higher land...
...Laborite M. P.'s fought and filibustered against Premier Baldwin's irresistible phalanx of 413 Conservatives. At last Mr. Macdonald suffered the ignominy of seeing his forces become so disorganized that many a hot-headed Laborite howled such unparliamentary epithets as "coward," "liar," "murderer." ( This unbridled rowdyism burst forth, of course, when the Government began to force through the Commons its long heralded bill to lengthen temporarily the working hours of British miners from seven to eight. As everyone knows, the strategy of this measure (TIME, June 28) is to lure the 1,000,000 striking British coal...