Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Equipped with a great deal of faith and a great scarcity of money and publishing experience, they decided to start a new religious magazine. Its name: Integrity. Its aim: to blast lay Catholics loose from materialism and worldly compromise, help hem lift their daily lives as sacraments...
...season, beefy tackles and flashy halfbacks, fresh out of G.I. uniform, are three-deep on many a campus -often on different campuses from the ones they trod before the war. The traffic in talented footballers is greater by far than in 1929, when the Carnegie Report let go a blast at professionalism in college athletics...
Wind for the Tunnels. Last week NACA came fairly clean to a TIME correspondent. It was considering the reports of two committees on a projected cluster of gigantic supersonic wind tunnels. To meet the needs of designers, the air would have to blast through the tunnels at fantastic speed. (One.rumor said 3,500 miles an hour.) To simulate conditions in the outer atmosphere, the whole works would have to be cooled nearly to absolute zero (-459.72° F.) and the air pressure inside reduced almost to absolute vacuum...
...Engel's composition was chiefly at fault, for it not only failed to produce the distinctive Elizabethan musical flavor captured by William Walton, for example, in the cinematic Henry V, but it was in addition so poorly adapted to the play that dozens of lines were lost under the blast of a trumpet or the wheeze of the organ...
...first time in a long time the Democrats were also truly united-united like the victims of a blast, in pain and befuddlement. The Party's strategists picked themselves off the floor and felt themselves gingerly. It was too early to tell where the fractures might show up in the congressional elections in November. But the air was heavy with gloom. National Chairman Bob Hannegan and his able young assistant Gael Sullivan got on the telephone as soon as the dust had cleared. They called many a local Party bigwig. Some were ready to hang out the crepe right...