Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired on it. The American plane burst into flames. I saw a fireball on one wing. The crew of three came out by parachute. The first two came out together. The third one came a bit later...
Hearing the testimony, one judge had a heart seizure. Women jurors, spectators and journalists burst into tears. Day after day the mountain of grisly evidence grew higher as survivors of Hitler's death factory at Auschwitz confronted 22 of their tormentors on trial in Frankfurt's Town Hall...
...ignore it. So the Connecticut Courant, in Hartford, boldly displayed the item: "We hear from Boston that last Thursday evening, between 300 and 400 Boxes of the celebrated East India TEA, by some ACCIDENT! which happened in an attempt to get it on Shore, fell overboard-That the Boxes burst open and the Tea was swallowed up by the vast Abyss...
...sell off to pay their debts. For another, banks and savings and loan associations that are lending money on the inflated values might not be able to retrieve the full amount of their mortgages, would find themselves in serious trouble. All this could trigger a price collapse that would burst the land-boom bubble, but few expect this to happen soon-if at all. Despite the high prices, strong and rising demand still supports the cost of land...
...wife was as eager as he. Democratic chieftains frantically tried to dissuade Wilson, but there was no convincing him-or Edith. By careful maneuvering, they managed to keep Wilson's name from being put before the Convention, and James Cox was nominated. When Wilson heard the news, he burst into a stream of obscenities. Cox campaigned as an all-out backer of the League, but Wilson considered the League his personal possession and would do nothing to help Cox. He was sure Harding would lose. "You have no faith in the American people," he lectured a doubter on election...