Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught driving home from work with three friends an hour after the Anniston courthouse had been the scene of a hate rally by the National States Rights Party. Party leaders had openly preached violence "to get the nigger out of the white man's streets." The shotgun blast that killed Brewster came, of course, from behind...
This, he said, is why the men in Washington regard China as the ultimate enemy in Vietnam: "How the Pentagon would like China to enter the war so they could blast out large sections of her cities...
Last October the West German Evangelical Church, a 30 million-member amalgam of the nation's major Protestant churches, decided to blast the Oder-Neisse question off dead center. In a 44-page memorandum, the church argued that German legal claims to the lost territories were balanced by the "grave injustice" done to Poland by Nazi...
...side of the road. Meg had had it for a while, decided to return alone to Publisher John Hay Whitney's Manhasset estate to get some rest. She needed it. In the next two days she and Tony slogged through rainy Manhattan shopping tours before the last farewell blast, an "American kitchen party" at the Four Seasons restaurant. Next day, "very sad" and very exhausted, Meg and Tony ended the trip that had been splashed all over U.S. front pages for 20 days. London papers, barely interested in the whole thing, wasted little space on their arrival home...
...conspirators ignited a massive charge of gunpowder and demolished Kirk o'Field, a royal residence where Lord Darnley, Mary's dissolute young husband, lay recovering from a severe case of pox that most likely was secondary syphilis. But Darnley was not a victim of the blast. In some manner, which has always bemused and tantalized historians, he and a servant got away to a nearby garden, where they were waylaid and strangled...