Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This blast echoed at the convention of United Motor Courts (Eastern Division) and the eastern branch of International Motor Court Association last week at Miami Beach.* The 350 convening tourist-camp owners agreed to free their industry from rookery-seeking Romeos. As for the rest of Detective Hoover's indictment, one U. M. C. official snorted: "So it is 'Hoover again.' A little more...
...foreign policy, "American White Paper," has argued that Roosevelt is determined to help the Allies with every measure short of war. It claims that the President, being in touch with confidential State Department cables, sees enough danger in the possibility of a Nazi victory to go ahead full blast with economic aid to the Allies. Thus he has repealed the arms embargo, denounced the dictatorships, and interned Finnish, Norwegian, and Danish credit to keep it away from Germany. We can see what the President has done, but he won't tell us why he has done it. He has never...
...show's one really hot number came when the entire cast went to town with He Is an Englishman, first treating the tune straight, then sweetening it in waltz-time, finally letting fly with a full blast of boogie-woogie while the dancers stomped, slid, slithered...
...most firesome features of the activities of political pressure groups at Harvard is the constant sniping of the smaller organizations at the Student Union. Every major move it makes is accompanied by accusations that it is Communist-dominated, self-seeking, and unrepresentative. The latest and perhaps the most annoying blast has come, on the eve of an H.S.U. sponsored Peace Rally, from the Harvard Anti-War Committee...
Meanwhile Rumania had a parallel problem. Rumanian police, acting on a tip supposedly supplied by the pro-Nazi Iron Guard, detained a fleet of dynamite carrying British barges in the Danube. Their supposed destiny: to blast the Iron Gate (the narrow gorge where the Danube cuts through the Carpathians) and block the channel to other barges carrying Rumanian oil to Germany...