Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colossal efficiency of the steel industry in handling brutal mass begins at its source. From the time iron ore is dug from the mines it scarcely stops moving till it reaches the blast furnaces in Gary or Pittsburgh. Along spurs of no fewer than nine railroads, box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports, roll on high trestles to the loading docks, which are anywhere from a sixth to a half-mile long. There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers from which the ore spouts into...
Meantime in Texas, President Harvey C. Fremming of C. I. O.'s Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers was less concerned with prospective A. F. of L. competition than with his testy reception by hot-tempered Texans. Loosing a warning blast against the Sit-Down last fortnight, young Governor "Jimmy" Allred barked: "We are not going to permit the transfer of disgraceful episodes in other States to Texas. In other words, we are not going to play 'Michigan.' " President Fremming, a bulky onetime University of Washington footballer who knows that a Sit-Down in an oil field...
Barcelona is the proletarian Pittsburgh of Spain, but violently Catholic Bilbao, capital of the Basques, is a sweating, sulphurous Spanish Youngstown, its skies red every night with the belch of blast furnaces. Up to last week the bouncing, battling Basques had been almost left to their own quarrels by the Rightist Spain of Generalissimo Francisco Franco this year, but suddenly he sent General Emilio Mola with a mixed force of Spaniards, Germans, Italians and Moors swarming north over the Cantabrian Mountains to get Bilbao or bust...
...Rightists and, according to dispatches from Rightist territory, these leaflets had considerable effect, numbers of devout Basques deserting their Radiorator. Advices from Bilbao reaching France were that many middle-class citizens favored joining the Rightist cause as the only alternative to "sharing everything" with Bilbao mobsters and blast furnace stalwarts...
...appear now & then. Sometimes they are onomatopoetic: "And the walloping Oxford bells, turning over and over like slow porpoises in a sea of oil, contemplatively intoned their musical incantations." But most of Virginia Woolf's descriptions are pictures: "It was March and the wind was blowing. . . . With one blast it blew out color-even a Rembrandt in the National Gallery, even a solid ruby in a Bond Street window: one blast and they were gone ... it paled every window; drove old gentlemen further and further into the leather smelling recesses of clubs; and old ladies to sit eyeless, leather...