Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Wind. In the absence of their star witness, the Senators were having a field day with the Army, and particularly C.W.S.'s General Waitt. This week Comptroller General Lindsay Warren gave them their second wind. In a blast at the War Department, he named three officers who had stepped out of uniform and into fat jobs with the same companies for which they had just drafted contract termination agreements. Said he: cost-plus procurement "is the greatest device ever invented for pumping the Treasury...
Within a minute, the air shock wave hit the Appalachian with the concussion of a 16-in. gun fired close at hand. The ship had already felt the underwater blast, like the push of a nearby depth charge...
Warning & Lesson. For days, damage assessors could not board the ships that stayed afloat because of radioactivity in the water. It was another warning of what navies in the atomic age would have to face in insidious, invisible death if their ships escaped the bomb's first blast. The other chief lesson of Test Baker was that even so stout a hull as the Saratoga's was like matchwood if a bomb burst within half a mile. Transports and destroyers with much thinner skins, but twice as far away from the bomb, suffered hardly...
...Living Church fervently seconded the minority report in an editorial titled "Not Unity but Surrender." But the hottest blast came in an article by tall, bespectacled Dr. Frederic S. Fleming, rector of Wall Street's rich old landmark, Trinity Church. Cried he: "This is the great betrayal! How much more honest it would be for those who are ready to renounce the Church ... to find their place in the Presbyterian Church without trying to 'scuttle the ship' for those who would re-mam true to their ordination vows...
When the bomb actually did fall, the reporter hustled off to make sure that his first story had not been sent. The A-bomb blast had not even been felt aboard ship...