Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time for favorable weather to strike deep into Germany and Occupied Europe. One night the weather seemed just right: not too good to expose the flights to antiaircraft on the coast, not too bad to prevent accurate bombing. The Bomber Command dispatched more than 500 bombers to blast towns from Norway to southern Italy. New heavy Halifaxes, Stirlings, Wellingtons and Whitleys, loaded with Britain's powerful new bombs, sought out Berlin for special treatment...
...attackers carried on a systematic nine-day aerial and artillery bombardment so concentrated that no defense in the world could remain intact. It was designed to blast a corridor just a few hundred yards wide. When the corridor was opened, troops poured through, and the battle changed, the Germans said, from assault to pursuit. The Germans drove south and east...
Broadcasting over the Crimson Network last night the Pan-American Society of Harvard launched the first blast of a triple-barreled radio campaign designed to foster goodwill toward the college among the Latin Americans and to stimulate Harvard's interest in Pan-Americanism...
Opposition forces gave Plan E supporters a last-minute blast on the eve of elections by showering Cambridge voters with a newspaper sheet printed in green ink and "exposing" Dean Landis as a "self-appointed dictator" with Communist sympathies...
...John Ed Fulton, Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale, who has just returned from a trip to England. He described the most recent findings of British doctors concerning brain concussions resulting from bomb explosions. Apparently, he said conclusion results from a too rapid speed increase occasioned by the blast. If the head remained stationary concussion would not result...