Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rodes Arnold's "Blast of the March Wind" is a simple and deeply felt picture of failure and bereavement, inconclusive but richly detailed. Only the Harry Brown story, a not quite "New Yorkerish" piece about a blonde and her husband in a tourist cabin, is unsatisfactory. All the stories, then, have it in common to be on a high technical level, to be not particularly "contemporary" in interest, and to seem not to deal with material that comes very close to the writer as person...
...murders in Sulu have averaged one every other day. In Jolo, the biggest city (pop. 6,000), Moro Aharaji went juramentado after being conscripted, chopped off the head of a Chinese baker, killed one Filipino soldier and slashed another before he was stopped by a policeman's shotgun blast. He fell dead on exactly the spot where the same policeman had killed another juramentado ten days earlier. Townspeople shivered, waited for the next attack...
WASHINGTON-The United States today intensified efforts to induce Finland to end her war against Russia with a twin-barrelled blast accusing the small Baltic nation of jeopardizing American war aid by serving as a tool for the German military machine...
Tommy Hart likes to hear that he has a wicked temper. But he lets it go only when he wants to. He is hell on efficiency, cuts loose with a fine blast of profanity when his crew shows signs of landlubberly carelessness. In the wardrooms of the Asiatic Fleet, he is known as tough but rated a good man to sail with when trouble looms. "In normal times," commented one officer recently, "I might like to be under someone a little easier than Admiral Hart, but in times like this in the Far East, I would much prefer...
...magnesite (MgCO3). When either of these is baked it forms magnesium oxide, and the trick is first to vaporize this by heating it to 3,800° F. in the presence of carbon and then cool it to around 380° in 1/1000th of a second with a blast of cold gas. During the heating, the carbon takes the oxygen away from the magnesium, and during the cooling the magnesium is precipitated as a fine powder too fast to recombine with the oxygen. This is called the Hansgirg process, and RFC has financed a $9,250,000 plant...