Word: blast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valve emptying the pool "so that no one can possibly be drowned." The ice, of course, sagged and buckled into fragments as the supporting water flowed out. Disappointed skater-voters were reported in late despatches to be warming to their work of devising a suitable epithet with which to blast their once popular Burgomaster...
Last week the diplomatic pressure from both sides eased off into a prolonged flourish of bugles, which may or may not have contained a note or two from the bourgeois-terrifying "Internationale." M. Rakovsky accepted the deafening blast ordered by M. Doumergue at its full tonal value. Smiling, he nodded to the buglers as he entered the palace of the President to present his credentials...
...creative imagination of today has cast off the shackles of our timid middle-class culture. It sees and feels a new America-an America of steel and stone, of dynamos and blast furnaces. It sets itself to discover the new America that contains great corporations and great trade unions, New York skyscrapers, Chicago stockyards, Pittsburgh steel mills, Florida land-rushes. West Virginia strikes, Herrin massacres, Ku Klux Klans, Legions and Leagues, labor spies, tabloid newspapers, jazz, lynching, sports, mortgaged farms, farm trusts, romantic fiction magazines, movies, bunk morality, bunk religion, bunk politics, imperialistic adventures-the new America that...
Having captured the Druse capital of Suedia (TIME, Oct. 5), General Gamelin, the French commander, proceeded to blast it into complete obliteration with every engine of scientific destruction at his command. Alleging that every house had been filled with snipers at the time of their entrance into the city, the French proceeded to dynamite countless ramshackle structures...
...process of rebuilding and remodeling old and inefficient blast furnaces is also going on. This has led U. S. steel to dismantle some of its oldest plants in the Pittsburgh district, and to rebuild more efficient ones at Youngstown...