Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...83rd birthday, unreconstructed Senator Carter Glass, asked whether he approved of the President's defense program, croaked fiercely that he thought the United States Navy should be sent "over to blast hell out of Germany...
...Solomon built the first blast furnace, utilizing smelting principles that were not rediscovered until within memory...
Standing as solid as Gibraltar on the floor of his office a block from the Capital building, the former Harvard football captain began an uninterrupted discourse with a blast at interventionists who failed to sign up in the last...
...supported by at least 250 lesser cannon which the British kept crowding in on a semicircle about eight miles deep around Bardia, while other naval guns fired inland from fleet units standing at sea. Lizzie's support was Italian bombing planes which, massing their attack, tried to blast the tightening ring of British force. But the R. A. F. was present, too, with eight-gun fighters against two-gun crates. Mussolini, far away in Rome, decreed that his troops in Bardia must hold out to the end to permit Marshal Rodolfo Graziani to consolidate a stand at Tobruch...
Last week the State Department still maintained a know-nothing attitude, but the Defense Advisory Commission finally asked that copper and zinc exports (mean ing to Japan and Russia) be made subject to licensing. The zinc request was prompted, among other things, by a blast earlier this month from C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper & Brass. Dallas' com plaint: in October, Japan got 3,775 tons of zinc, in 1940's first ten months, 12,042 tons. Meanwhile, Brass mills working on cartridges, shell cases, detonator caps, rotating bands, fuse caps, other munitions for British...