Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short two-acter, Prostitute is Existentialist Sartre's blast at racism and reaction in the U.S. South (which he visited briefly in 1946). The play tells how Lizzie McKaye, a Northern prostitute new to a Southern town, is unsuccessfully high-pressured but effectively soft-soaped into accepting the town's mores. She signs a paper that frames a Negro for rape and lets a white murderer go free. Afterwards Lizzie (well played by Meg Mundy*) feels tricked and disturbed, hides the Negro during a manhunt. But Liz eventually becomes resigned and "respectful"-she agrees to be the mistress...
Familiar voices repeated an old and threadbare lie-the miners were merely on a vacation. But almost every one of 400,000 soft-coal miners had left the pits. Blast furnaces had begun to shut down. An anxious government ordered railroads to cut their coal-burning passenger service by 25%. These were the first signs of the palsy which always accompanies a coal strike. It was no nightmare. It was, in fact and flesh, John Lewis again...
Jimmy picked it up, beamed, and blew a triumphant blast. The new contract had its compensations. It assures his musicians their present jobs at their present handsome wages for three long years, and gives them a chance for additional ones on television...
Last week George Hill Jr. dragged it into the open. He quit his $230,000-a-year job as vice president and fired off a blast at American's management. Hill said that American, which had once sold 15% more cigarettes than second-place Camels (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.), was now barely ahead. In 1947, Camels had come up till its volume of production was only 1½% under Luckies. The fault, said he, was in the advertising, and "executive decisions with which I am in fundamental disagreement, and in the making of which I have...
House chairmen, appointed yesterday by Kornfeld, will circulate petitions over the weekend "to blast the lie that 'Dashing Doug is the Veterans' Darling...