Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stream of Iranian notes pleading permission to suppress the revolt in Russian-occupied Azerbaijan drew a bitter, accusing blast from Moscow. Because Government constabulary had provoked incidents in Azerbaijan, the Red Army would admit no Iranian troops into the Iranian province. While it was on the subject, Moscow also turned down a U.S. proposal that all Allied troops leave Iran by Jan. 1, in place of the treaty deadline, March 2. The U.S. thereupon moved 2,000 of its troops back again. The same day, in Azerbaijan, the Iranian Governor of Maragha fell to a rebel's bullet...
...scientists of Oak Ridge, Tenn. are interested in atomic bombs. They are also interested in science itself. Last week they combined both interests in a telling blast against U.S. military authorities who had just destroyed Japan's cyclotrons. They put the destruction in a class with the German burning of the Louvain Library in 1914 and 1940 as a "wanton and stupid . . . crime against mankind. . . . Men who cannot distinguish between the usefulness of a research machine and the military importance of a 16-in. gun have no place in positions of authority...
...effect was instantaneous and evidently deep. The packed galleries and M.P.s of all parties roundly cheered Ernie Bevin. Keen, young Michael Foot, Labor's most pungent pamphleteer, who had also been up all night preparing a blast at Bevin, tore up his manuscript.* Laborites, Tories, Liberals were apparently of one mind: this way lay hope, at least, for a world afraid of blowing itself to smithereens. The British press showed no excitement...
...another blast went off: the British Communist Party demanded that Bevin resign his Cabinet post, charged that his policies toward the Soviet Union and "new peoples' governments of Europe" were merely a continuation of Tory policies...
...famed U.S. feminist. At the moment when civilization was whiffed out, they had been working in the stacks of the New York Public Library on Author Katz's new book, Down with Work-The Nuclear Physics of Economic Democracy, and perhaps owed their freak escape from the blast to the deadening effect of so many books...