Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likening of Coach Frank Leahy of Boston College to the immortal Knute Rockne (Leahy's team accomplished the stupendous feat of beating Tulane, which has yet to win its first game this year). Dave Egan was only groping around in the dark last spring, letting loose an occasional blast at Harvard, but this fall he found the nice-sounding rallying point he was looking for. Extensive research convinced him that Harvard was lowering the standard of all New England football--even the Johnny-cakes and popovers are suffering from the unwholesome influence Harvard exerts...
Over the Manchester and Point Bridges -where the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio Rivers join-the parade whisked on for a 53-mile, 12-stop trek up the Monongahela, on the way to Steel. Past burning blast furnaces, past stacks belching columns of black, profitable smoke, along the river with its flat, grimy coal barges, the railroad tracks with their chuffing, endless trainloads of coal and iron-on up through the tough steel towns went Wendell Willkie. The workers listened. There were boos; but everywhere they listened: at Hays, at Homestead (scene of the 1892 massacre), at Duquesne, Clairton, Wilmerding. Solid walls...
...scrap. When Japan's stock pile is gone, she will have either to get scrap from Germany, if Germany can deliver it, or the Japanese steel industry must switch from scrap to pig iron. To do so, the Japs must get the Germans to build them some good blast furnaces; they must also get the Manchukuoan mines into real production, or get ore from Russia...
...Herr Adlermann's blast against the British moved some 40 TIME readers to reply. Two agreed with...
...violently on its beams, next minute a second torpedo crashed into the engine room. In an instant the whole ship was a hell of fire and water. Through the gaping holes in her sides, water poured into the ship, trapping scores of passengers, some of them wounded by the blast. In the darkness and storm it was almost impossible to launch lifeboats. She was listing farther every minute...