Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justices fought each other by feeding their own accounts of the court's battles to newsmen and columnists, violating the confidences of the court and creating a flood of gossip. In fact, it was a leak to a columnist which had brought on Justice Jackson's blast...
Once during debate on the bill his backers cried: "Blast him, Carter! Dynamite him!" "Why," he asked softly, "use dynamite when insect powder will do?" One corner of his mouth curled up when he talked. Said Woodrow Wilson: "Carter snarled the Federal Reserve Act through Congress out of one side of his mouth. Think what he would have done with both sides." In 1918, Wilson made him Secretary of the Treasury. Finally, in 1920, at the age of 62, he went to the Senate...
...TIME bows to the swelling blast from various quarters (including costumers, make-up artists and union officials), cheerfully admits that it would be supererogatory for anybody to add anything to the lady's charms. TIME'S apologies to Miss Goddard...
Poison Press. But when really aroused, he scribbles counterdenunciations, buys big newspaper ads to blast his tormentors. Chief target of Crump's vituperative essays is a pudgy outlander, Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean. One anti-Evans masterpiece contained the following observations...
Rocketing Along. While the rocket is still moving slowly, its vertical flight is controlled by vanes of graphite which deflect the blast of gas. Later, as it gains speed, these are supplemented by four sets of vanes on the fins. These obey orders from gyroscope devices. They are pre-set on the ground; after the rocket has taken off, it cannot be deflected to a new course, or its aim corrected. All its nursemaids can do is cut off the power by radio. Last week they let it blast away for 59.4 seconds. Super-Vergeltungswaflen of the future, Army experts...