Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state A.F.L., which dragged up an old case from the time when Donovan was U.S. District Attorney and used it to denounce Donovan as antilabor. What Donovan had done-in 1922-was to prosecute Buffalo labor leaders who had dynamited a passenger train. At the A.F.L.'s blast out of history he protested loud & long, but some damage had been done to his candidacy...
...liquor bottles on the mantle. They really weren't empty. He looked at the banners on the wall. Kind of moth-eaten, but still good to see. What the hell, he thought, opening the door. He'd done this before. Going out the door was like walking into a blast of air that might have been the "cold, cruel world" they talked about, only it was August and hot and humid...
...been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...
Protection. Is there any defense against these subtle poisons? In the case of a bomb exploding on the ground or sea, the answer is probably no. People in the bombed area might survive the blast in deep underground shelters, but the air sucked into the ventilating systems would surely bring in radioactive particles. And in any event they could not venture above ground for some time without tons of shielding...
...studio's staff. Replied General Manager John F. Reeder: the new pay schedule (a 25% increase-an estimated $1 million-a-year boost in the payroll) put into effect on the demand of the Screen Cartoonists Guild would not allow the studio to keep on going full blast with a reasonable hope of profit. Work would have to stop, said he, on all but four feature productions (Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free, How Dear to My Heart, All in Fun). Workers on all other projects would have...