Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That doughty old warrior of Negro labor rights, President Asa Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters, took the rostrum at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in St. Paul last week to blast liberals and labor alike for the color bar that keeps Negroes out of countless union locals. Chief offenders: locals in the building trades and, south of the Mason-Dixon Line, steel, textiles and Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. "The entire labor movement bears guilt for the existence of racial disadvantage to workers of color," said Randolph...
...tried to kill Betancourt? Venezuelan intelligence agents had earlier warned the President that cronies of ousted Dictator Pérez Jiménez had hired four ex-Nazi military engineers in Spain to do the job. Last week, after the blast, Betancourt also implicated an old enemy: Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The bombing was no amateur blast. It was set off by remote control, showing a technical skill with explosives. The plotters also had access to minute information about Betancourt's movements. Laid low by gall bladder trouble for a week before the Armed Forces Day celebration...
...elevator platforms, guidance antennas, fuel-storage and loading systems, and interconnecting tunnels. Once the alert comes, the missile is fueled in minutes and readied for firing. When the word is given, massive doors open at ground level and the Titan begins to emerge, rises until it is ready to blast off on its 5,500-mile journey...
After reading Nelson Rockefeller's blast at Vice President Nixon last week. President Eisenhower remarked with a trace of bitterness in his voice: "I see the fine hand of Emmet in this." By Emmet he meant Emmet John Hughes, his own speechwriter during the 1952 and 1956 campaigns...
...loudest applause by booming out: "Would you apologize to Khrushchev?'' Invariably, the audiences boomed back: "NO!" Back in Washington, L.B.J. studied the Moscow cables as carefully as the G.O.P.'s Thruston Morton had-and made fast political capital of them. Shortly after Khrushchev's latest blast, Johnson took to the Senate floor. "Premier Khrushchev has launched a verbal attack upon our President which reached new heights of vituperation," he cried. "The incident underscores the fact that the nation has a pressing need for unity. None of us, Democrat or Republican, is going to knuckle under...