Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Francis Cardinal Spellman's blast against Eleanor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 1) raised loud echoes last week. Public reactions were as might have been expected: Protestants supported Mrs. Roosevelt's position; Catholic spokesmen backed up the cardinal's criticism...
Fact-Finding Formula. As the hours ticked by, big blast and open-hearth furnaces began shutting down. Coke ovens were banked. But under the combined pressure of the White House, public opinion and the dark prospect of a full shutdown, some of the smaller steelmakers capitulated. Then Bethlehem and Republic, junior partners in steel's Big Three, followed suit...
...Britain's top educators, to write a book called The Crisis in the University. Britons have decided that it is one of the most thoughtful, responsible critiques of the British university since John Henry Newman's Idea of a University. By last week Sir Walter's blast had whirled the learned dust along academic corridors in England and made eddies in the intellectual weeklies...
...cause of Perón's blast was La Prensa's sympathetic coverage of charges made in the Chamber of Deputies three weeks ago against IAPI, the official state trading agency. A hard-hitting anti-Perón deputy named Agustin Rodriguez Araya had introduced into the record 40 questions that he wanted to ask the Minister of Economy, lAPI's head. A typical question: "What compelling reasons were there for handing over without payment to the majordomo of the presidential country house 20 jeeps which were later found being used by a morning newspaper...
...readers will find themselves facing this uncomfortable decision again & again as they read (Percy) Wyndham Lewis* passionate hymn of praise to the face of their country. For Lewis, who once edited a ferocious avant-garde magazine entitled Blast, is Britain's quirkiest, most anarchical man of letters, and his point of view is always so unconventional that most people would feel safer at being in his bad books than in his good ones. In The Apes of God (1932), Lewis flailed phony British "culture" with rip-roaring violence; in Time and Western Man (1928) he sought to "heal...