Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem that the A.P., brought up on strict factual reporting, still has to solve: how can it interpret complex news without losing its prized objectivity? Ex-A.P. man James B. ("Scotty") Reston, a topnotch interpretive reporter for the New York Times, and a guest speaker, let off a blast of steam on the subject: "I think [our] future depends on our developing adequate and intelligent means of explaining what is going on in the world. The news is getting more complicated every year...
Cruel Dissonants. First the audience was jolted upright by an ugly, brutal blast of brass. Under it, whispers stirred in the orchestra, disjointed motifs fluttered from strings to woodwinds, like secret, anxious conversations. The survivor began his tale, in the tense half-spoken, half-sung style called Sprechstimme. The harmonies grew more cruelly dissonant. The chorus swelled to one terrible crescendo. Then, in less than ten minutes from the first blast, it was all over. While his audience was still thinking it over, Conductor Kurt Frederick played it through again, to give it another chance. This time, the audience seemed...
...girls ought to do something about it themselves. I understand that the key people in this sort of thing are the Housemothers. Let the girls approach these stern people, and let them demand that the lines of communication be extended. Let them get rid of that derisive repeated blast of buzzing that the telephone company is pleased to call a busy signal. It offends the senses and curbs the passions. It must...
...advertisement was right about above-ground explosions like those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There radiation was the third hazard, since most of the radiation went upward and was absorbed into the atmosphere. But the Army failed to say that with underwater explosions like the Bikini bomb blast (as TIME reported), radiation is the No. I hazard...
...fourth period, Leverett let go another blast, with Jerry Gallow running wild all over the field...