Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operations in the islands, every available aircraft. To the strength of the Kamikaze Corps was already added that of the Jinrai (piloted buzz-bombs) and the Giretsu (airborne saboteurs). Ozawa would go further: he would take surface ships, rig them for self-destruction, then -if the Kamikaze squadrons could blast a way through the "picket line" (outer naval screen)-he would send the ships in to try "body-crashing" tactics against major U.S. fleet units...
Though his blast hit official Buenos Aires like a blockbuster, Correspondent Cortesi, when last heard from, was still at large. Only one mention of the story was made in the terrorized Argentine press, but the underground newspapers could be trusted to pass the word along...
Said Churchill: "It was only . . . when all the [German] preparations being made on the coasts of France and Holland could be examined in detail . . . that we knew how grave had been the peril. . . . Only just in time did the Allied armies blast the viper in his nest. Otherwise the autumn of 1944 . . . might well have seen London as shattered as Berlin...
...production is cut back, first in one sector and then in another, business activity and unemployment may fluctuate violently and in different directions, from industry to industry and place to place. Some areas, some industries and some plants will work full blast while others face crises, and swift changes will continually alter the picture...
...birds, the echoes of his own voice-multiple colors flashed before his eyes. In his 20s he took up portrait painting, but he kept mixing up sounds and colors. Finally, he submitted to the inevitable. Last week twelve of Belmont's fully orchestrated "Color-Music" paintings played full blast in Manhattan's Belmont Galleries (owned by his wife...