21.   Deer either smacked a pitch far over the outfield wall or struck out mightily, the buttons on his shirt nearly bursting on every swing.

22.   For three years Brown seldom started, slowly working his way into the lineup until he burst on the scene last year like a bowl full of Jell-O.

23.   He had fired the imaginations of the young, and his presence was shooting the size of purses to highs never envisioned before he burst on the scene.

24.   It burst on the scene and is below the radar screen of standards and regulations.

25.   Internet layoffs, which were just a trickle at the beginning of the year, suddenly spurted in May, right after the Internet bubble burst on Wall Street.

26.   More importantly, news of the massacre eventually burst on the American consciousness, creating national revulsion against the war.

27.   No one had been able to solve the mystery of how a biological process so powerful that it became a geologic force could burst on the scene so quickly.

28.   Once in a very long while, an art exhibition bursts on the scene that holds the imagination hostage.

29.   Roba burst on the world scene by winning the Olympic gold medal in Atlanta, then proved it was no fluke by winning the last two Boston runs.

30.   Some of the sacks of food burst on impact when hitting the ground spilling grain that is scooped up by those who are quick to get to the scene.