Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critic who gave the Manet show highest marks was the New York Times's John Canaday, who then went on to blast New York as a "cultural backwater" because the show would not be seen at any of its museums...
...Appia Antica villa outside Rome. "She told me that for five years they've been having hardly anything to do with each other. It's a shame." Actress Gina Lollobrigida, 38, did her best to cover up her unhappiness by giving a blast for 80 movie types including Claudia Cardinale, in honor of Valenti, who is touring Europe for the first time as the new president of the Motion Picture Association of America. Gina and her husband of 17 years, Yugoslav-born Dr. Milko Skofic, a non-practicing physician long weary of being Mr. Lollo, had finally arranged...
...then returned with rockets, heavy fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire. For three days, the Reds on Hill 400 hit back with mortar and small-arms fire so intense that Medevac helicopters could not land to take out Marine wounded. Finally, Marine pilots used 1,000-lb. bombs to blast craters deep enough to provide cover for the choppers, and a few critical cases were evacuated. Then the Marines moved out, stormed the hill with satchel charges,* and blasted the Reds out of their holes. They found a Communist regimental command post replete with underground rooms and trenches...
...fast-multiplying network of jigsaw trenches and concrete bunkers in the DMZ itself. There, according to Marine intelligence, a third North Vietnamese division-the 304th-is preparing to move south. U.S. planes pounded the DMZ again last week, and ranged north into North Viet Nam's Panhandle to blast the Yen Xa railway and highway bridge and flatten a dozen antiaircraft sites. One Navy Phantom was hit by a chunk of shrapnel that slashed through the ejection seat, grazed the pilot's helmet, then ripped out through the canopy. The pilot made it safely back to his carrier...
...defense production and to delay deliveries of alloys to civilian customers in the transportation, construction, aircraft, electricity and even nuclear-energy fields. Instead of shutting down its Christy Park Works and laying off 500 workers, as it had announced last year, U.S. Steel Corp. has the plant going full blast, with 2,000 workers turning out bomb casings and air-to-air missile warheads...