Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Same." But in his blasts against the Warren Commission, Hoover was relatively mild. FBI agents in Mississippi, he said, had been rendered all but helpless because the state is "filled with water moccasins, rattlesnakes, and red-neck sheriffs, and they are all in the same category, as far as I am concerned." In even more vitriolic style, the FBI chief attacked the South's most revered integrationist, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who, even as Hoover delivered his blast, was in the Bahamas working on his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, to be delivered in Oslo...
...badge. Yet Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order last May that allows Hoover to stay on no matter how old he is. Still, it was obvious that Hoover had been chafing for a long time in his unfamiliar role as a Justice Department underling, and his reverberating blast to the newshens was one way to ease that frustration. J. Edgar Hoover has many old foes, has made a legion of new ones recently; undoubtedly there will be vastly increased pressures on the White House from now on to boot the old fellow...
...athletes who run the dashes have it pretty easy. All they have to do is blast out of the blocks, boom along full-bore for 100, 200, 400 meters. Once in a while, someone breaks a record. But a record mile takes a curious kind of teamwork: two or three evenly matched runners harrying and extending each other until finally, in that last agonizing sprint to the tape, one man finds some unknown reserve of energy and will power. Poor Peter Snell. At 25, the burly New Zealander is so much better than anyone else that he may never know...
...many of the fire-eating unionists of the open-hearth and blast furnaces, McDonald has been suspect from the start. A college graduate (Carnegie Tech, '32) who once aspired to a career in the theater, he was a mill clerk when he attracted the attention of the union's founding president, Philip Murray, with his organizational talents. Murray selected McDonald as secretary-treasurer of the union in 1942, made it clear that McDonald was his heir apparent. When Murray died in 1952, McDonald stepped almost automatically into the presidency...
...China problem thus reverts to where it was before the Lop Nor blast -how to stem Peking's slow erosion of the Western position in Asia...