Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going full blast under the guidance of Holy Rollers and thunder-voiced spiritualists, some of whom drive new Cadillacs and live in the suburbs. It is a woman complaining: "Whenever you have a lot of preachers jumping on their head and rolling on the floor like hogs, I tell you, you can't get no place like that. You see people foaming, your women with their dresses up over their heads. My God, you can't get no place like that." But almost as numerous as the churches are the tawdry bars and the liquor stores...
This is the kind of thing Nikita's rivals in Red China watch with growing suspicion. As Peking put it in its latest blast, a 24,000-word article in People's Daily: "A privileged bourgeois stratum has emerged in Soviet society." In fact, Khrushchev's "phony Communism" is restoring the "forces of capitalism" and substituting for the class struggle "the struggle for a good dish of goulash." It is the "Communism of the American way of life, and Communism seeking credits from the devil...
...Kocero that the payroll was not due until the following night, and swore it on the Koran. When Kocero returned with his men for the robbery the next night, the local gendarmes were waiting for them. During the struggle that followed, Kocero was caught by a shotgun's blast, but somehow he managed to stagger off badly wounded into the night. Two days later police discovered his body on the bank of a mountain stream two miles away...
...knife. 'Now you'll let white women alone, even in hell,' he said. But the man on the floor had not moved . . . From out the slashed garments about his hips and loins the pent black blood seemed to rush like a released breath . . . upon that black blast the man seemed to rise soaring into their memories forever and ever. They are not to lose it, in whatever peaceful valleys, beside whatever placid and reassuring streams of old age, in the mirroring faces of whatever children they will contemplate old disasters and newer hopes...
From southern Kyushu to northern Honshu, the classic brush-painting coastline of Japan has been transformed into dynamic montages of modern wealth. Fire and smoke belch forth from towering blast furnaces that gobble up a steady stream of coal, iron ore and limestone from huge supertankers. The Japanese take second place to no one as owners of the most modern steelmaking equipment, have 14 ore-to-ingot plants operating at nearly 95% of capacity and another four being built. Japan ranks second to the U.S. in up-to-date strip-mill capacity and produces 38% of its steel...