Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...French warship hovered unobtrusively in the offing, taking notes. Overboard went the Artiglio's two chief divers, Alberto Gianni and S. Francesci. After them were lowered special mines which were intended to blow up the hulk of the Florence H. Suddenly the sea rose like a bubble, burst with a deafening roar into towers of spray. The little Artiglio was tossed in the air like a child's toy, broke in two, sank instantly. Only seven of her crew of 21 were picked up alive. Rescuers found the lifeless bodies of Divers Gianni...
...Cowperthwaite Criminal Quartet from the Cambridge Backs, composed of three male voices, and a tenor, will burst into bellicose balladry for their first appearance upon any stage. A battery of piano-accordions will discharge in a newly-composed Kinder-symphonie, for the last time upon any stage. A variety of vivid divertissements by several stellar scintillants, recruited from the ranks of Dunster democrats, will bolster the bill...
...made of two parts of wheat and one of rye. It is cooked whole without grinding. The grain is just as it comes from the field and is put in a double boiler and cooked until the kernels of wheat burst open. This sometimes takes four or five hours. " 'We cook up a batch of it, put it in the ice chest and get some out and warm it up each morning. I suppose it will last for a week or ten days without getting sour.' " Interrogated as to whether they might add Coolidge Porridge to their line...
...Burst into prolonged uproar as a motion censuring the Labor Government was introduced by Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin...
...Manhattan newspapers one morning last week burst a story romantic, unconfirmed, yet weighted with authoritative detail: potent Pan American Airways, Inc. was negotiating with Great Britain's Imperial Airways, Ltd. to form a three-day transatlantic air service via Bermuda and the Azores...