Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans suffered their worst pangs last week in the Saar, where the blast furnaces* were under paralyzing shell fire from the advancing Third Army (see below). But the struggle for the Saar was beginning to resemble the bloody infighting of the Cologne plain...
...Petty Animosity." On Nov. 18, Francis Biddle asked for Littell's resignation, on the grounds that he and his assistant were "personally incompatible." Instead of his resignation, Littell wrote out a withering 12,000-word blast at his boss. The Attorney General of the U.S., Littell charged, was guilty of "confusion [and] superficiality of mind . . . frustration . . . personal vanity . . . devious ways . . . petty, personal animosity . . . intimate connections" with Lobbyist Tommy Corcoran to the detriment of the public interest. He charged that the Attorney General was "exasperated" because Littell had warned Congress of three shady-looking Administration schemes...
Meanwhile the R.A.F. was meat-axing Cologne, Duisburg, Essen, Freiburg, Neuss and other rail centers feeding the West Wall. Some 270 Lancasters unloaded six-ton "factory-busters" on Munich, first German city to feel their blast...
...blast directed at U.S. postwar commercial plans in general, including civil aviation as well as the world press, the sober and influential London Economist specifically attacked A.P.'s Executive Director Kent Cooper. It singled out for criticism Pressman Cooper's recent statement in LIFE that, as a first step to world press freedom, preferential transmission rates should be abolished. The Economist observed: "Mr. Cooper, like most big-business executives, experiences a peculiar moral glow in finding that his idea of freedom coincides with his commercial advantage. In his ode to liberty, there is no suggestion that when...
...many heroes of the day was Machinist's Mate Robert R. Scott, whose station was below decks at an air-compressing machine supplying the 5-inch guns of the California. A torpedo blast ruptured his compartment, and oil and water began to pour in. Scott's companions got out. Scott yelled: "I'll stay here and give them air as long as the guns are going." They closed the door on his compartment to save the rest of the ship from being flooded. Scott stayed and supplied air to clear the gun barrels until he was drowned...