Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After this overall blast, the New Deal, supported by pounds of midnight-oil-smelling research, laid down a barrage on each square inch of Senator Butler's 176-page report. Samples...
Their book is less a handbook than a lively, disorderly, hair-splitting collection of obiter dicta. In an agile linguistic commando raid Authors Graves & Hodge survey the terrain of English prose and map its modern contours. Armed with 25 "principles of clear statement" they blast at 54 recent writers...
...Everybody has money, and entertainment of all kinds goes full blast. Ninety per cent of the people you meet say, 'I think we're too complacent here at home.' "The people are talking a lot of Republican talk, but from what I could see of the tenor of the people the President will stay in next year...
...polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary...
Thus, he estimates, the U.S. can comfortably carry a national debt as high as $300,000,000,000 if its men, materials and dollars are kept working full blast by a compensatory economy...