Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People within a 10 to 20 mile radius of the blast thought tires, boilers, or explosives had blown up, but no property damage was reported. As the seismograph at Weston, Massachusetts, showed no ground tremors, L. Don Leet '29, associate professor of Geology, believed the explosion airborne, Smith added, "No airplanes, however, have been reported missing...
...Washington, Vermont's Senator George Aiken and New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey let go a rebel blast against the do-nothing, anti-everything politics of Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Reece. But bumbling Carroll Reece, who has Bob Taft's powerful support, appeared to be in ho danger. The insurgent New England Senators swing little weight around party headquarters...
Camouflaging her nostalgia behind a five-paragraph facade of labored derision--"the Harvard man is stooped, bespectacled, and loathes football"-- SCAN's own Mary Latson finally reveals her true sentiments with a jealous blast at Radcliffe monopoly. "Where there's Harvard, there's ALWAYS Radcliffe," she wails...
Last week the jittery community suffered a further shock. In Meridian Hills, wealthy food broker Herschel Burney came home one night, found his 39-year-old wife, Mary Lois, dead on a bed, her face half blown away by a shotgun blast. Her murderer got away...
Crazy Horse, mounted on a wild stallion, would loom even larger than the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on nearby Mount Rushmore, which Ziolkowski helped Gutzon Borglum blast. With no Government money, as Borglum had, Ziolkowski hoped to finance his work by mining the mountain's beryl and feldspar as he went along and selling Indian souvenirs to curious visitors. It would take him 30 years, he guessed last week, to whittle Crazy Horse...