Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judge Johnson's decision, but was turned down flat. He went before the Alabama legislature to rend the air with 20 minutes of bombast; the proposed march, he declared, was Communist-inspired, abetted by a "collectivist press," by "propagandists masquerading as newsmen." He delivered himself of a withering blast against his old Alabama University friend, Judge Johnson, calling him a man who is "hypocritically wearing the robes" of a judge while "presiding over a mock court," one who "prostitutes our law in favor of mob rule...
...Spacecraft Center in Houston will not diminish its activity. What is moving to Houston is administrative control and planning of manned space missions, the training of astronauts, and-beginning with the second Gemini shot scheduled for this fall-ground control of manned missions. But the place the missions will blast off from will still be the sandy flatland around Cape Kennedy. And until NASA's Saturn rocket is operational, the Air Force will continue to provide adaptations of its defense-developed missiles to do the blasting...
...parade headed up the hill toward the capitol building, gusts of wind began whipping at the trees and tall weeds. A blast of icy rain swept across the demonstrators. Behind the marchers now, I looked up the line, across the 2000 bobbing heads. At the front were two huge flags, one of the United States and one of the United Nations, flapping in the wind. Higher up and to the right loomed the very white dome, topped by a Confederate flag and the modified Confederate flag that Alabama has chosen...
...really loud cry to "clean up Harvard Square" came from Middlesex Superior Court Justice Frank W. Tomasello, who issued a blast just before sentencing a 19-year old Cambridge youth to a five-to-seven-year suspended sentence for drug peddling. Just three weeks before, one of Tomasello's colleagues had made a similar, though milder, attack after sentencing three men to suspended sentences. The police and the University (which helped in the apprehension of the youth sentenced by Tomasello) must have been a bit chagrined: by catching the peddlers, they precipitated harsh criticism...
...with Guerrilla-cum-Metallurgist Nguyen Cam, the son of a South Vietnamese farmer. Cam fought against the French, later was transferred to an agricultural camp. Early in 1960 he was back in uniform, this time learning cast-iron production and simple blast furnace design. Then Cam and 35 other metallurgists hit the Ho Chi Minh Trail, set up a secret Viet Cong iron foundry in Kontum province. Cam built kilns and smelted the ore from nearby iron deposits to make grenades and mines. He was captured by Vietnamese Rangers one day while gathering corn...