Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounds. A small, controlled reactor has been built (TIME, Sept. 8), but putting one into a jet engine involves tremendous difficulties. The reactor must run very hot, but not burn itself out. It must transfer enormous amounts of heat to the "working fluid" (air) without slowing the blast too much...
Chinese women were taking the blast in their dainty stride. Some even openly agreed. Said a pretty 23-year-old whose fiance had deserted the army to marry her-then was unable to find a job that would support them both: "If there's fighting to do, the soldiers had better not get married. Half their hearts would be in the family, and only half in the fight." But the prim young wife of a Shanghai bank clerk spoke sharply for the rest: "Whenever men get into trouble, they blame women...
...Germany itself last week the Communists, too, knew that the chips were down. They had launched a full-blast propaganda campaign against the plan for Western Germany, crying "Einheit" (unity), a slogan that had long made deep and stirring music to German ears. In the Russian zone they had launched a drive for twelve million German signatures on a petition for an "all-German unity" government. A huge sign in Berlin set forth the Communist case (see cut). It read: "Attention! You are now entering the American sector. American democracy rules there. They want to forbid the will...
...After St. Martin got a hole in his stomach from a shotgun blast in 1822, he lived 58 years, to the great profit of medical researchers. A doctor put food directly into his stomach through a flap, and got a close-up picture of digestion...
Once a year, the dignified Bond Club of New York lets off steam-in the faces of the biggest targets it can find-in the Bawl Street Journal, a ribald parody of the Wall Street Journal. In the issue out this week, a loud blast was directed at Outlander (Cleveland) and Banker-Hater Robert R. Young, along with a ribbing cartoon (see cut). Said the Journal: "ICC will give a polite reason for permitting Robert Young to join the New York Central board. Real reason ... is to 'stop those silly...