Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden landslide from the rain-soaked, earthen cliffs that tower above the Rhone had sent a heaving mass of mud hurtling down Caliure Hill where it burst like a tidal wave upon two apartment houses, shattering and engulfing them, ripping open water mains which spouted and gas mains which promptly burst into flame. A little further down the very street on which the two apartment houses had stood is the comfortable bourgeois home of Edouard Herriot, for 25 years Mayor of Lyon, Leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, outstanding French statesman of the Left Centre, and therefore apparently destined...
Coming around the second turn, Burgoo King moved up with a burst of speed. From three lengths behind tired Economic at the head of the turn, he was four lengths ahead after the horses came into the stretch. Jockey James, who usually lies back to wait for clear running at the start of a race, has the reputation of being impossible to catch when his horse is leading in the stretch. Jockey Horn on Economic and Jockey Ensor, coming up fast with Stepenfetchit, found him impossible to catch last week. Burgoo King was first by five lengths at the finish...
...fire, Col. Kluge pressed forward to get a good look. A fire hose burst loose from its hydrant, whipped around, caught Col. Kluge in the back of the skull with its metal coupling, killed...
Frequently during the course of the college year the editors of the Columbia Spectator, the Harvard CRIMSON, and the Yale Daily News and other leading publications will burst into print, and incidentally the front pages of the nation's newspapers, by writing editorials of a radical and violent nature. These editorials, while sometimes limited to severe criticism of some college activities or officials, often invade the fields of national and international politics and problems. This invariably raises the question of the province that should exist or does exist with respect to the editorial ambitions of the college editor...
...civilian parade began more than a million Russians marched across the Red Square in a solid, seemingly endless phalanx more than 100 ft. wide. At sight of Dictator Stalin, who wore a Red Army cap and bluish grey "semimilitary jacket" (said Moscow papers), each new group of workers burst into "spontaneous cheers." Just at dusk the parade's tail was brought up by a Soviet dirigible which had flown during the day from Leningrad to Moscow...