Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political battle of the usual pre-primary variety. A recent editorial in the Boston Herald even warned against allowing this quarrel to endanger the Norfolk system, implying that it should be relegated to the realm of pure politics. A Boston Post news story on the day of an extraordinary blast by Mr. Hurley concluded, "And so the fight goes merrily...
...posts, it seemed likely for a few days that youthful Prince von Starhemberg would be shelved as commander of the Heimwehr in favor of his far more effective subordinate, Vice Chancellor Emil Fey. Prince von Starhemberg saved his job and proved his loyalty to the Dollfuss regime with a blast to his followers attacking Hitlerism...
...Someone had forgotten to attach restraining wires from the toes of the skis to the wing struts. Pilot June was told by radio from the Jacob Ruppert what was wrong. Co-Pilot B. M. Bowlin crawled out on the wing, lost his cap and a glove in the icy blast, saw that the skis indeed were dangling, that nothing could be done about...
...camps, despite the fact that Chancellor Hitler is nominally a Catholic. Not to be downed, the Catholic Bishop of Mainz ordered priests in his diocese not to permit Nazi flags to be flown from their churches, a practice now common throughout the Reich. But Rome's most potent blast was hurled by Michael Cardinal Faulhaber, doughty Archbishop of Munich. Speaking ex cathedra from St. Michael's, which was jammed to overflowing with Munich Catholics, His Eminence thundered: "Let us not forget that we were saved not by German blood but by the blood of Christ!" Storm Troopers...
...sponsor the famed Prince plan for consolidating all U. S. railroads into seven systems. His favorite occasion for making news is on returning from his Paris home or his estate in Pau where he is still Master of Fox Hounds. Early this year he gave ship reporters a blast on professors-in-Government (TIME, Feb. 13) that brought a blizzard of pedagogical protest. Last week on landing in New York aboard the Europa he triumphantly confirmed reports that he had bought a "substantial" interest in the great packing house of Armour &; Co. Asked how much, he curtly retorted...