Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was warm. Streams were rounding into form and trout were biting. In crowded Manhattan, this generation's Dead End Kids performed summer's immemorial rite and dove into the East River (see cut). Baseball was going full blast and the sports fiends had a startling topic of conversation-old Connie Mack had his A's up on top after 17 years in cold storage. The hammock season was almost here. Just at the moment, it looked like a beautiful morning...
Last week Subway Contractor Mario Luccio decided to get tough. National Fine Arts Director Guglielmo de Angelis d'Ossat begged in vain for more time. Luccio shook his head. While archeologists disconsolately stared, the work went on again full blast...
...minister in the forlorn hope that Hungary's Communist-dominated "coalition" government could be brought to a more friendly attitude toward the democratic U.S. After a "refresher" visit back home last year, he knew that that job was all but impossible. Last week he loosed a blast at his government, and also announced his intention of becoming a U.S. citizen. Said he: "I feel more at home here...
...brought her court to Edinburgh, Knox cried: "The preachers were wondrous vehement in reprehension of all manner of vice, which then began to abound; and especially avarice, oppression of the poor, excess, riotous cheer, banqueting, immoderate dancing, and whoredom that thereof ensues." Knox titled one famous pamphlet "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...
...boom has a foundation. Through the islands, hemp and copra production is steeply up; canefields converted to rice and cotton during the war have been turned back to-more profitable sugar; refineries are going full blast; inter-island shipments are heavier than prewar...