Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aunts, uncles, fathers, cousins, sons, daughters and defunct ancestors. But what they will get clearly, and often admirably, is Author Welty's subtle blending and harmonizing of the moods and characteristics that make a large, well-knit family sound like an orchestra (sometimes a prison orchestra) going full blast. The aim and essence of Delta Wedding is the recording of this mass effect; it has no plot, no direct narrative, and its few dramatic incidents and occasional solos seem to be brought in merely to show how negligible and squeaky they are compared with the roar of the family...
Ever since the spy story broke, the Russian Embassy in Ottawa has watched the damaging developments in tight-lipped silence. Last week it turned a blast on the man who spilled the beans-ex-Embassy code clerk Igor Gouzenko...
...knew even better than the American Legion's pompous John Stelle, who trumpeted a blast of criticism at him, that there were delays in filing claims, that medical records were not on hand, that much of his personnel was incompetent. He shut Stelle up with a curt report outlining shortcomings of which even Stelle was not aware. He doggedly applied himself to his business, building an organization which he hopes can do the job. In his flat Missouri twang, he said briefly: "I'm not worried...
Boston's multitudinous, intensely parochial Roman Catholics wear their faith on their sleeves, reach for brickbats and shillelaghs at the slightest hint of criticism. But last week, after a telling blast against Boston Catholicism, they scarcely knew what head to crack: the blast had been loosed in the Commonweal, a Catholic weekly. It was signed "Katherine Loughlin," a pseudonym protecting a middleaged, devout, Irish Catholic spinster, her family and a relative who is a priest...
Moscow's air-conditioned political climate stayed steady as a glacier. Moscow's millions raised no visible eyebrow, spoke no audible comment on Generalissimo Stalin's blast at ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill...