Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence during the presidential campaign led fellow South Carolinians to wonder whether he looked on the Dixiecrats with favor. But not until last week did he let anybody know how he really felt about things: in the midst of a speech on foreign affairs he let loose a hot blast of scorn at the domestic Fair Deal...
Then the Illinois State Legislature's Broyles Commission, which had been investigating both the University of Chicago and Roosevelt College, let go with the loudest blast of all. It called for the expulsion of any student who might refuse to state whether or not he was a Communist, any teacher who would not resign from a Communist or Communist-front organization. It also recommended that colleges which tolerate "subversive" groups on campus should lose their tax exemption...
General Douglas MacArthur usually sloughs off Soviet gibes at his occupation policies with silent, five-starred disdain. Last week he broke with custom, made a sharp reply to the latest official Russian blast against him-a letter from Lieut. General Kuzma N. Derevyanko, Soviet member of the Allied Council for Japan...
...have seen the pyramids as foursquare symbols of tyranny at its solidest and heaviest. By contrast, the plans for Manhattan's U.N. Secretariat called for lightness, elegance-and fragility. The Secretariat's sky-filled, four-acre walls of windows, which might be shattered by a single bomb blast, would symbolize an optimism unknown to tyrants...
...Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Corp., shut down five of its Pittsburgh open-hearth furnaces for lack of orders. In Cleveland, Republic Steel Corp. closed one of its blast furnaces. As orders for specialty steels slacked off, Lukens Steel Co. laid off 150 men. This week, for the first time in 1949, steel output will fall below last year's rate for the same week (94.1% of capacity...