Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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United Air Lines last week bit the hand that regulates its diet. In an angry blast at the Civil Aeronautics Board, which controls all flying routes, United said: "The Board is utterly unpredictable. . . . It has become so intent upon aiding the small carriers (and incidentally making richer the rich men who now control them) that it is slighting its . . . all important duty . . . to develop air transportation . . . for the traveling public...
...silence had one great effect: it gave U.S. Anglophobes-and isolationists-a new lease on life. In the Senate, Illinois' C. Wayland Brooks, the Chicago Tribune errand boy, let loose with a gusty anti-British blast: "The American people did not send their sons abroad to fight and die for the safety of Britain or the triumph of Russian influence." And in the House, Pennsylvania's squat, aggressive Leon Gavin cried: "It's about time for Uncle Sam to get tough with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden...
...west coast of Leyte, Major General Andrew Bruce's 77th Division caught the Japs so far off balance that, before they recovered their poise, the 77th had penetrated Ormoc. But there the Japs stood, and stood fast. Most of last week the 77th used its artillery to blast a group of coconut log and concrete blockhouses 600 yards north of Ormoc on the road to Valencia. The Japs still had artillery and mortars, still had enough infantrymen to make three desperate counterattacks...
...still held the initiative, still got men across the river. And his artillery had delivered one mighty blow to the German war machine. Under fire of Patton's guns was almost one-tenth of Germany's iron-and steelmaking capacity. U.S. Long Toms knocked out towering blast furnaces, ripped out great sections of sprawling mills in the Saar's narrow industrial corridor...
David Zaslavsky, Pravda's journalistic revenge weapon, exploded again last week. This time his target was Author William L. ("Bill") White (They Were Expendable, Queens Die Proudly), who accompanied U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric A. Johnston on a tour of Russia last summer. Zaslavsky's blast was touched off by White's forthcoming book, Report on the Russians, excerpts from which appear in the December Reader's Digest. Sample passage...