Word: blasted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With bulldozers and dynamite, they have moved mountains of sand, built some 40 miles of road, helped construct a 10,000-ft. runway from which the first jets will blast off against the enemy next month (see map). Ammo depots, a ten-tank fuel dump with a capacity of 230,000 gal., and a T-pier are all under construction; next month a floating 350-ft. De Long pier will be towed in from Charleston...
While Saigon's soldiers got some breathing room, the once-cocksure Viet Cong found themselves choking in a new kind of war. Their massive mon soon assaults never materialized-be cause quick-scrambling allied planes all too often flew off through the rainstorms to blast a company apart before it could attack. Whereas in the first flush of their summer successes the Reds could count on an eye for an eye, by August the kill ratio had dropped to 1 to 3 against them-and they are likely to lose 27,000 men in action this year against...
...when the slaughter reached its peak, hard-working hunters could net 15,000 birds in a single day-at a market value of $1,250. News of a nesting was spread by telegraph; hunters came from miles around, and the pigeons were trapped, bludgeoned or shot (a single shotgun blast once brought down 187 birds). Squabs were knocked down from their nests with long poles or burned out with fire. In one three-week period, 5,000,000 pigeons were wiped out at a single nesting site...
...Latest blast comes in a 43-page monograph from Milwaukee's Defense Research Institute, which represents 225 companies and 3,800 defense lawyers. Chief target of the D.R.I, is the ad damnum (damages) clause that puts a specific price tag on the injury at issue. Strictly speaking, the dollar amount a plaintiff is claiming is not supposed to sway juries empaneled to determine actual damages based on trial evidence. But, charges the institute, negligence lawyers are using the ad damnum clause for just that purpose...
Morrisroe, critically wounded by a second shotgun blast seconds after Daniels was slain, is under treatment in a Chicago hospital and was unable to appear a court as a witness. The defense claimed that the priest also was armed with a gun. Officers, however, found no weapon at the scene of the shooting except the shotgun which Coleman used...