Word: blast
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...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. The second volume of the autobiography of Great Britain's former Prime Minister presents a judicious and highly readable account of the part he played in England's wartime government...
...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. In the second volume of his memoirs, the former Prime Minister again shows himself a man of generous mind and literary ability as he tells of his role in England's wartime government...
...poor thing but mine own," sighed Britain's former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 73, speaking with characteristic nonchalance about the recently published second volume of his memoirs, The Blast of War, 1939-1945. The P.M. had journeyed to New York for the American publication of the book-and a concurrent honorary degree from Columbia University-but his efforts at self-promotion were light to the point of weightlessness. The whole subject of statesmanlike memoirs, he said, invariably made him think of Arthur Balfour's critique of a Churchill memoir: "Winston has written four volumes about himself and called...
...confusion. Then, from north and south, the Communists charged in force. The big U.S. 155-mm. guns were lowered to fire pointblank, and cooks and headquarters clerks joined the gun crews in manning the defense. U.S. planes, directed by Sergeant Mark Ridley of San Antonio, soon swept in to blast the attackers. When the attack began, Ridley and his squad found themselves out on patrol a quarter of a mile from the camp and with a direct view of the enemy's principal rallying point. Time and again as the Communists moved to fresh attack, Ridley called down explosives...
Several explosions sent smoke gushing from the theatre as firemen fought to shut off the oil burner. The smoke did little damage and no one was hurt. The fire trucks departed shortly before midnight. The theatre was empty at the time of the first blast...