Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work on Dutch machine-gun nests. Next came 800 fully equipped infantrymen under Lieut. Colonel von Koltitz-followed by several hundred more. Landed on the field in airplanes, they spread out, seized bridges near by, reputedly shot down every one of eight British Blenheim bombers sent over to blast them out. Three days later, when the armored units of the German Army caught up with them, they had the situation perfectly in hand...
...President going to give the U. S. defense program an executive head with full executive powers? Franklin Roosevelt's regular Friday morning press conference came & went without definitive answer from the President. Big Bill Knudsen of the National Defense Advisory Commission had set the country ringing with his blast against the weekend "blackout" in U. S. industry, his plea to machine toolmen-management and labor-to speed up because of "terrible urgency...
...regularly at 40? per foot and every big shelter had one, that under Piccadilly Circus sprouting a neon sign "HAPPY CHRISTMAS." In most shelters a costumed Santa made his rounds with small gifts, but festoons and tinsel had to be given up in subway-platform shelters because the air blast from the trains blew the flimsy stuff away...
...never before seen a living actor at work. This whopping project was run by tiny, greenish-eyed Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre. Last week Hallie Flanagan published an ardent, lively history of Federal Theatre, Arena (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), winding up with a blast at the politicos who finally packed the whole huge show off to the storehouse...
...only effective reply which the defenders could make was to night-bomb the enemy in return. R. A. F. did blast Düsseldorf, large coal, steel & freight centre, submarine bases in France, air bases everywhere in the conquered countries, the Fiat works and Royal Arsenal in Turin. But the R. A. F. was still outnumbered and the damage done was probably not equal to the damage Britain received...