Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take the recent blast from Politburo Member Le Due Tho, writing in the party paper Nhan Dan. "Bad habits such as bureaucracy, commandism and violation of mass rights still exist to a somewhat serious degree," he complained. Among the bad habits were "cases of dubious financial situations, corruption, abuses, incorrect borrowing and unrestricted eating and drinking." By commandism, Le Due Tho meant orders heedless of local needs and wishes, and simple snobbery: "A number of leaders in factories and at construction sites do not associate with workers and labor cells...
...smiles and pleasing words for the audience. "For the first time in history," he said, "two great powers with different social systems, the Soviet Union and France, have decided to put their relations on a solid foundation." De Gaulle was doubtless pleased at something else Kosygin predictably produced: a blast-though a perfunctory one-at U.S. "intervention" in Viet Nam. But while the two statesmen were in hearty agreement over events in far-off Asia, they reached a standoff on what is the great issue for Europeans. In their talks, Kosygin again forcibly urged the general to recognize the division...
...Roaring Forties. His most formidable obstacle was a stretch of black, tempestuous ocean just east of the Cape in the latitudes known forbiddingly as the "roaring forties." In Moby Dick, Melville described how the Pequod "sharply bowed to the blast" in these storm-tossed waters, with "showers of silver chips" flying over her bulwarks. In the voyages of the clippers, a crew of more than three dozen seasoned hands was needed to keep a vessel from disaster in the roaring forties...
...million million tons, had a nucleus ten miles in diameter, and crashed into the moon at a speed of 35 miles per second. The explosion produced by the stupendous collision was intensified by the comet's high content of ice expanding into steam on impact. The resulting blast produced a crater 60 miles across and at least two miles deep; it hurled pulverized debris hundreds of miles in all directions...
...fashion industry billed it as the Party of the Year, and the outfits at the fancy-dress blast for 900 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art were indeed grand. One lady in an especially fetching getup was Shirlee Mae Fonda, 34, Actor Henry's wife, who kept everybody wide awake by appearing in her pajamas. Shirlee Mae had a grand time at the ball, and assured anyone who asked that she had no intention of sleeping in her white silk nighty-nights designed by Chester Weinberg. She was going to put them away "to save...