Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down out of the west streaked a flight of 18 Bell Airacobras, at 50 feet off the ground let go a diving blast of gunfire. A column of 18 Navy dive-bombers, dropping from 8,000 feet, pulled up at 1,500, after letting go their 500-pounders. The giant bursts all seemed to hit the same spot...
...bright spot was the stadium of the College of the Pacific, where a football game was going full blast. For nearly half an hour, Cadet Wieser crisscrossed the gridiron, waggled his wings like a light-drunken moth, hoping that somebody would understand, clear the field so that he could land. The spectators were fascinated but the players paid no attention. Then things happened fast. He 1) knocked the chimney off a house, 2) tore down a high-tension line and put the stadium lights out, 3) ran out of gas. Landing willy-nilly, he headed for a crowded parking...
Some dentists last week were huffy over the new plan, feared they would eventually be swallowed up by the medical profession. Biggest blast came from the Texas Dental Journal. Wrote the editor: "[This plan] will not produce M.D.'s or D.M.D.'s, but B.B.'s (Bewildered Bastards), illegitimate offspring not acceptable to either dentistry or medicine...
...thrusts with his cigaret ... as though he were giving the hot foot to invisible pixies"). There was Wendell Willkie, counsel for the motion-picture industry, who upset the proceedings at the start. Denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, Lawyer Willkie jumped the gun with a 2,600-word blast defending the industry, attacking the legality of the Committee, and pointing grimly at the anti-Semitism he found in the proceedings...
Before the launchings (and presumably in answer to the production blast of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd last month) the Navy recapitulated: In the first eight months of 1941, it had laid the keels of 436 craft, launched 249, placed 213 in service after fitting them...