Word: blasted
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...Case Against. Opponents of acceptance stood on firm technical and military grounds. They argued that a ban would freeze nuclear development at its current pioneering stage. It wo.uld stymie such peaceful nuclear pursuits as atom-powered space probes and massive use of atomic explosives to blast a new Alaskan harbor. It would make more difficult the already difficult job of keeping together skilled teams of scientists in AEC labs. It would stall the development of clean, small, highly mobile tactical weapons...
Brushing aside all such details, Conservative Lutheran Pelikan gives his answer in the form of a blast at the questions themselves. They are, says he, symptoms of a kind of militant, secular liberalism that would homogenize religion in the U.S. The questions indicate a confusion that identifies " 'the American way of life' as a religion, the national temple under whose broad roof various shrines -Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox-may be permitted to worship so long as they acknowledge themselves to be sects or parties within the one state Shinto...
...task of No. 1 priority in Fidel Castro's Cuba. In the holds of the 4,310-ton French freighter La Coubre, were 76 tons of Belgian artillery shells, grenades and small arms ammunition. Most of it never reached its destination. At that hour, a shuddering blast rocked the vessel, hurling exploding shells, steel deck plates and human fragments aloft in a pillar of fire...
Meanwhile, in the cause of credit for their own party, Republicans sought to outflank him in the House. Locked up in the powerful House Rules Committee since last summer was a modest civil rights bill that liberal House Democrats had been trying to blast loose for debate...
...junior high schools. Conant praised efforts to departmentalize the eighth grade (with four specialized teachers per class instead of one), but warned that "drastic revisions may be in order in many schools." Among them: a longer school day, a possible end to small schools. Then Conant loosed a blast. In his study so far (125 junior high schools in 17 states), he has found "an almost vicious overemphasis on athletics." Said Conant: "Colleges, of course, are by and large the worst sinners in this regard, but that the disease had spread to the junior high school...