Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Work. He kicked in the glass in the comptroller's office door, methodically laid out his tools: an 8-lb. sledge hammer with a loin. handle, two drift-pins, two chisels, 100 fuse-type blasting caps and four electric blasting caps with wires. He tapped the battery in the breast pocket of his leather jacket and hoped he wouldn't have to use it, because a well-grounded safe man hates to blast; it is a matter of professional pride...
...about decided he would have to blast anyway, when three students heard him and called the cops. Parry was going back to his car for a longer wire when a patrolman stuck a pistol in his face. "Who are you, pal?" asked the cop. "I'm a loser,"*said Parry wearily...
Over the boss's objections, the C.I.O. United Auto Workers bought an $11,600 armored Packard sedan for Walter Reuther, who still wears a sling around his right arm, shattered by a shotgun blast a year...
From his cream-colored Beverly Hills mansion, aged (85), ailing William Randolph Hearst periodically sends down orders to the 17 daily Hearstpapers for a new blast against an old hate-the vivisection of animals by medical scientists. Hearstlings dutifully grind out editorials and cartoons assailing vivisectionists as "dog torturers" who experiment on animals for the joy of "seeing them suffer...
...little of Manhattan's night life. They usually spend Trippe's off hours at home in their big apartment on fashionable Gracie Square, a stone's pitch from Mayor O'Dwyer's mansion and the tooting tugs on the East River. (A deafening blast once startled a telephoner into asking Mrs. Trippe: "Madame, do you live on a barge...