Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things, for which the U.S. asked neither thanks nor service, be enough to persuade the Italian people to vote for their own freedom, against Communism? We knew it was possible-but far from certain...
...long, the chemists think, before radioactive tracers are used to control industrial processes. Bessemer converters, for instance, burn impurities out of molten iron with a blast of air. Usually the phosphorus is the last impurity to go. The Little scientists propose that a small amount of radioactive phosphorus be added to the mix. When it (and the ordinary phosphorus with it) has been burned out of the steel, automatic instruments will note instantaneously the drop in radioactivity. Then the air blast can be shut off at exactly the right moment...
...Doctors in Philadelphia were told by visiting medical brass that their big job would be to decide which atomic victims were worth treating with scarce blood serum, etc., and which were not. Best Army opinion: anybody caught within a mile of the blast would probably...
FARMERS EVERYWHERE, busy with spring chores, were giving thanks for the mild winter. Even the blast of snow and freezing weather that had hit Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded...
Here's what one leading New York football columnist saw last week: "Harvard should stage a strong comeback ... the Johnnies figure to blast Yale and perhaps upset Princeton... Jim Kenary, a needle-point passer, will be cast for the role of Chappuis in Art Valpey's version of the Michigan offense. .. Hal Moffie, Harvard's seatback, can ontrun anybody on the Yale squad... Chip Gannon is due for a big year at Cambridge. .. Bob DlBiasio is the lad Yard birds tout as a 'second Mahan'... Tom Guthrie will be eligible next fall...