Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controlled Spanish press, which had been treating touring Congressmen as if each was a cigar-chomping oracle, bottled the story up tight for 24 hours. Then Madrid's Arriba burst forth with an angry editorial which accused Pfeifer and his two companions-Democratic Congressmen Clement J. Zablocki of Wisconsin and Thomas S. Gordon of Illinois-of "malice and shortsightedness." What was Spain going to do about the U.S.? Cried Arriba: "The answer is simple. Nothing. We are going to do nothing at all. We don't need the U.S. for military adventures. Our fleet does not need American...
...answer was quick in coming, and it was made in tones as sharp and ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring cheer: "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! Everybody for the Farm Bureau stand up and holler-Yeah!" They cheered again when he lambasted Charlie Brannan's plan: "This is the road to tyranny . . . The people who are supporting this plan are either very dumb or they...
...admitted Erck, "the girls do study now and then and sometimes they produce quite excellent results." When they do poorly, "they take their penalties like men, and if under the weight of their trials . . . they do allow themselves to burst into tears . . . they become very angry with themselves. This, of course, only makes them cry all the harder for the moment, but then they go off and try again...
...That Enough?" Two days before Louella broke the news (and then burst into tears because stern journalistic duty had driven her to it), the Italian newspaper Il Tempo had noted that Ingrid was "knitting little things" and "rose with a certain difficulty from her seat." And it was no secret in Rome that a tall Sicilian physician had examined Ingrid and then blabbed...
...been 22 years since he burst into the city hall to punch the mayor of Newburyport flush on the mouth (60 days, said the judge). It had been 18 years since he talked about a formal bout of fisticuffs in Boston Garden to settle a grudge. The days when Bossy Gillis considered it fitting to decorate his roof with chamber pots and his bathroom plumbing fixtures with the names of political rivals were over...