Word: blasted
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...gang began operations in 1956 in the small island town of Mazzarino, site of a 200-year-old Capuchin monastery. One of its first alleged victims was Father Agrippino, whose evening prayers were interrupted one November night by a buckshot blast into the wall beside him. A few days later, Carmelo Lo Bartolo, the monastery gardener, trotted up to the friar, informed him sadly that anonymous scoundrels wanted $320 or they would aim better next time. Father Agrippino settled with the messenger...
After the folksinging, freshmen and their dates can go to the Union where Gordie Main and the Mainiacs will blast twist music while George Graham and his band purr "mood" music nearby...
Each week East holds a "school meeting"-to settle behavioral problems. Typical debate: Was East right to blast a lad whose banging around at night woke him up? Consensus: No. In keeping with school spirit was the problem of children who kept hurtling about the house on bicycles, alarming pedestrians. When the practice was voted down, one nine-year-old refused to accept the decision. But he did compromise: he now rides only two days a week, which East regards as splendid evidence of personality development...
Unlike most of his competitors, McDonnell leapfrogged missiles almost entirely to concentrate on space. Sputnik's blast-off in 1957 inspired McDonnell to start designing a manned space capsule with company money. More than a year later, when the Government finally asked for capsules, far-ahead McDonnell got the job even though its bid was not the lowest, delivered the first Mercury within 13 months. Haste and continual design changes produced some much-publicized goofs, including loose bolts and floating cigarette butts in the capsules. By riding herd on the program personally, determined James McDonnell cleaned out most...
...chill white blast of sunshine, on the side of one a calf was born...