Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chomping a sizable slice of humble pie, Secretary of War Stimson last week apologized to Senator Wheeler for his "near treason" blast of the week before, admitted that he had gone off halfcocked...
...apology the Secretary said he no longer believed that the Senator had intended to send his post cards directly to draftees. Said the Secretary: "I am sorry that on the basis of incomplete evidence, I made a statement last week which carried a contrary implication." Wheeler, readying another blast against Stimson (on the extension of draftees' terms of service), replied: "I think it was a very decent thing for the Secretary to do." By that time the Senator had a second Cabinet apology-this one from Secretary of the Navy Knox. Wheeler's son, Richard, had applied...
...Only the urgent pleas of King Christian X, whom everybody loves, have hitherto prevented full-blast sabotage. The cowed Government of huge, old, Moses-bearded Premier Thorvald Stauning, who has been in office for twelve years, has sunk low in popular esteem...
...line as far as the eye could see. . . . Children in the street waved flags and joined in the war songs." Factories blazed by night, while the forges of Osaka and Nagoya hammered out the iron instruments of destiny. From the islands, the heavy-laden bombers swept away to blast Nanking...
...Machine-gun equipment will go up from 282 to 465, cannon (75s, 105s and 155s) from 48 to 66. Ten armored scout cars will be added to the 16 now in the reconnaissance troop. Fifty-two light and 54 medium tanks will be added to blast a way for the Fourth's infantrymen, who will ride to battle in halftrack caterpillar troop carriers...