Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sinister forces, human and natural, that threaten the American way. Last week earthquakes of unprecedented ferocity were about to produce tidal waves that would drown almost anyone in the U.S. who did not happen to be standing on Pikes Peak. To counteract these H-breakers, the sub had to blast them with H-bombs before they got rolling. For one hour, on land and at sea, machine guns chattered, torpedoes schlurped through the deep, and missiles sang in the air. Voyage is all it tries to be: fast-moving calisthenics for young eyeballs...
...other gang leaders of Nice, who ordered Bianchini to appear for disciplining. He haughtily refused, declaring "I am the viceroy!", and threatened to bust up his ex-cronies if they caused trouble. A few days later, as he was leaving a bar, Bianchini walked into a nonfatal blast of buckshot. Soon afterward, two of the Algerian maquereaux were driving through the heart of Nice when another car pulled alongside and riddled them with tommy guns. Then two more of Bianchini's henchmen were disposed of: one was found dead at the bottom of a ravine with four bullets...
...Rumanians refused to invite the peripatetic Nikita Khrushchev to last week's party for fear that he might steal the spotlight for himself and use it to blast Peking. Moscow asked permission to send President Mikoyan instead. Peking, hailing its "traditional" ties with a land few Chinese had even heard of, renamed one of its infamous state farms the "Marco Polo Bridge Sino-Rumanian Friendship People's Commune...
...celebrating Mozart's vibrant characters, Brophy, as always, goes full blast. Conventional worshipers of Mozart's "classicism" will be badly singed. Don Giovanni, she insists, is Mozart's Hamlet, written in profound relief and guilt shortly after his father's death. Indeed, Papa Mozart had trained his genius son from babyhood in every musical skill known to his cramped, parochial mind, then hovered over the outcome as possessively as a mother hen. On his final release from father, Mozart wrote his own saga of the father-murderer to whom seduction is a duty...
...Paul Schoenstein, managing editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, the manuscript submitted by Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen was "a true blockbuster." By newspaper standards, to be sure, it was bulky. But last week, with a blast of trumpets, all 50,000 words landed on the pages of the Journal-American...