Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell before a strafing attack. The lone remaining bluejacket took over: three times he grabbed a shell from the fuse pot, placed it in the tray, dashed to the other side of the gun, rammed it home, jumped into the pointer's seat and fired. A terrific bomb blast finally carried him over the side. He was rescued...
...Chiang Kai-shek was surprised, it was a flash reflex. He knew the Japanese too well for shock. The blast of bombs in Pearl Harbor was the amplified echo of an explosion along a Manchurian railway ten years ago. Since that day Chiang's Government, like some dusty, neglected Cassandra, had warned the Western Powers time & again that some day the Japanese Army would turn on them as it had on China...
...night the News's twelve big presses rolled full blast. Toward morning the delivery chutes spewed bundles faster than the trucks could take them away. Taxis were commandeered. By 6 a.m., when the presses had to be cleared for the Daily News, the Sun run was 896,000 copies of a 72-page, ad-filled issue to sell to curious Chicagoans...
Commando troubles, it soon developed, were confined entirely to the home front. In a House of Commons blast that the London Times tabbed as "injudicious and un-English," Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes elaborated on his removal as Commando chief (after 15 months' service), said flatly that Britain's war effort will remain lethargic and unsuccessful until the war offices of Whitehall are thoroughly overhauled...
...which it proposes to give them is denied to territories overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence of our own colonial peoples" was "humbug, deceit and hypocrisy of the worst kind." He declared that the U.S. was ready to use British bodies "to blast a way into the markets of the Continent and establish the financial system of Wall Street...