Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctrine endlessly in the training weeks before they first took the air against the Jap in December. Chennault lectured them at blackboards, took them aloft to show them what he wanted: not individual heroes, but everlasting teamwork; no crackpot do-or-die attacks, but slashing, concentrated assaults that would blast the enemy...
Back in the U.S. last fortnight, after escaping to Australia by PT boat and bomber. Correspondent Floyd exploded over a new headline: VOLCANIC BLAST TERRIFIES JAPAN. It was about an eruption of Mt. Asama. As an ex-staffman on Tokyo's then-U.S.-owned Japan Advertiser, he knew Mt. Asama was in a sparsely settled region and "could do a double-Vesuvius" without exciting the Japs...
Kindelberger's blast made automen turn rage-red. WPB's auto chief, Ernie Kanzler, branded it "perfectly ridiculous." G.M.'s* Fisher Body division said that it has shipped a steady stream of sub-assemblies to North American for months. Murray Body is eleven weeks ahead of schedule on sub-assemblies for Douglas and Boeing. Cracked Chrysler Chief Kaufman Thuma Keller: "I think the auto industry will take care of itself." Big, burly Ford Production Boss Charles Sorensen remarked that automen had always looked upon the planemakers as "little custom tailors...
...principal dangers to art objects are given as light, dark, heat, flame, sudden and great changes of temperature, blast, mechanical violence, abrasion, dryness, dampness, water, chemicals, smoke and dirt, mold and insects...
...roads, looking not for a job but a place to live. A recorded voice intones: "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. . . ." From the walls placards answer: "For want of housing the worker is lost, for want of the worker production is lost." Then, a hot blast of air and two great, blood-red pictures -one of the burning U.S.S. Arizona, the other of a little girl wringing her hands over her bullet-riddled sister in Poland...