Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parkman never returned. For two days Webster remained behind bolted doors in his laboratory, with his furnace and two stoves going full blast, and the water running continuously. He left word that he was "performing experiments...
...until the wound was dry -a period of one hour." Under ordinary conditions, such a wound would have taken 24 hours to dry and begin to heal. The pig showed no ill effects, and the fact that its temperature fell 7°F. while it was on the air blast was rated as favorable for recovery from an operation...
...press and radio excitedly told of Mao's visit to rural Chiuling, where 31,000 peasants had "spontaneously" decided to "go forward on two legs"-build their own factories and blast...
...reaping. At the blare of a bugle, they dropped their tools and seized rifles (unloaded) for close-order drill. At the sound of whistles again, they fell to a new set of tasks, hurrying to simple workshops to make canvas shoes, coarse paper or cotton cloth, and to primitive blast furnaces to make pig iron out of low-grade local ore. Across the land, fires from the 2,000,000 tiny "backyard furnaces" lit the night sky. "Everything into the pot!" was the kanpu slogan. The communes put up their own money to buy equipment for new mines, factories, furnaces...
...recent Communist Party Congress in Moscow, old-line Cuban Communist Blas Roca "resolutely supported" Khrushchev's blast at Albania, grinned while Fellow Delegate Rita Diaz ran down the aisle in her militiawoman's regalia, presented Khrushchev with a Cuban flag. Yet the same issue of the Cuban government organ Revolución that plastered Khrushchev's attack across more than two pages also printed Peking Delegate Chou En-lai's rejoinder in full...