Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firing tests began a few hours after she was out of sight of land. Like test pilots feeling out a new airplane, her builders and crew tried her slowly, firing each gun singly. There were no targets. Between salvos, technicians topside and below took readings from strain and blast gauges, many another gadget that would show how North Carolina writhed when her guns...
...minutes dragged into a half-hour, close to an hour, as the technicians with their gauges settled themselves and made their equipment ready for the test. How would she take it? Would she heel to starboard before the recoil of her broadside? Would it rip her guts? Would the blast dash the laymen observers from the eyes of the ship into...
Some who had looked away from the blast turned their eyes to sea and saw a great phosphorescent geyser where the 16-in. projectiles plunged into the ocean. Others, who had traded sight of the great flash for what would come later, shook their heads, rubbed their eyes and began to see again...
...wind-generated electricity will be turned as a secondary supply into the lines of Central Vermont Public Service Corp. Windless days are no worry, because the machine is built not to replace but to supplement present sources of electricity. When the wind turbine is running full-blast the power company can reduce its consumption of dammed waters, saving them for dry or windless spells. Engineers' big problem, in fact, was to outwit too much wind: a sudden gale could raise the turbine's output in three seconds from 1,000 to 3,000 kilowatts, overloading an unbraked generator...
With a ringing blast on the Senate floor and the most comprehensive figures yet released by anyone on rearmament progress, he had smoked the President out on defense, spoiled his day at Hyde Park, made him submit figures of his own, drawn from him a stinging reply that somebody had sold the Senator down the river by giving him a set of false statistics...