Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a Blast. Johnson found the political weather cool in Virginia's Byrd-land (where Senator Byrd is the only eminent Southern Democratic holdout), but it warmed almost immediately when the L.B.J. Special rolled into the Carolinas. At every whistle stop, politicians of every variety, from Senators to sheriffs, from South Carolina's Governor Ernest Rollings to Florida's Representative Bob ("He-Coon") Sikes, clambered happily aboard. There they were warmly and methodically greeted by L.B.J. and Lady Bird, photographed, endorsed, introduced, and ushered off with a blast of The Yellow Rose of Texas...
loser to Richard Nixon in the 1950 Senate race in California a discourse on political ethics night and then proceded to blast vice-President, his running mate, and Republican Administration...
Hammarskjold sat, his head bowed, listening to the blast. Replying, he leaned forward in his seat, spoke over his folded hands. "It is very easy to resign," he said. "It is not so easy to stay on. It is very easy to bow to the wish of a big power. It is another matter to resist...
...with Khrushchev. "Whether it was prearranged or not, I do not know. But I think he has marked himself as very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc." (Replied Nkrumah diplomatically: "Mr. Herter was the last person from whom I would expect such a remark.") Herter went on to blast the Soviet attack on the U.N. as "an all-out attack, a real declaration of war against the structure, personnel and location of the United Nations," and later U.N. Ambassador James Wadsworth took the floor in the Assembly to rebut Khrushchev in the same vein...
...standing crowd of 10,000 cheered for five minutes after the blast. They chanted, "We want Ted," but the Thumper stayed in the dugout, pacing nervously...