Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although no hot-lipped trumpeter like his boss, Under Secretary Slattery released a report full of tall talk in Technicolor, pausing occasionally to put the blast on antique U. S. misconceptions of Alaska (see map). He found...
...Warren's men grabbed at the netting to clamber to the Rex's rail. Stralla's seamen met them with a blast from the Rex's fire hose. The Warren party fished out their men, returned to shore, where a stronger squadron was organized, including ships of the Coast Guard and Fish & Game Commission. The 600 patrons were returned to shore during a truce, at dawn, and then the Warren fleet anchored or cruised around the Rex, promising to starve its commander & crew into submission...
...drives madly, with band music going full blast on the radio of his car. He keeps time by jumping up and down in his seat and pounding on the knee of his companion. When he crashed into a police car in downtown Seattle, he jumped out and began dressing down the cops, threatening to have them fired. His face was cut and he had a broken collarbone, and all the time he was taking pictures...
...Hitler's technique of getting his way in Europe is the use of "military diplomacy." At the psychological moment troops will be massed at weak frontiers, conferences of Generals will be held, inspired stories will be printed telling of fleets of German planes ready to take off and blast Paris and London to bits with newly invented high-pressure bombs. Last week British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, announcing the date of Parliament's adjournment for a three months' vacation, boasted that "there is every indication that Britain's newly regained power is restoring confidence to Europe...
Naming no names, Bank Overseer Crowley let off a blast against the things he believes are responsible for this condition: against the views of Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles that bank credit and investment policies should be liberalized to suit Administration policy; against banks which have increased dividends (from $187,595,000 in 1934 to $221,904,000 in 1937-38) faster than earnings warranted. In December 1934 when commercial banks' deposits amounted to $38,996,340,000, capital stood at $6,151,567,000. At the end of last year when de posits had increased...