Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow's Pravda, over whose editorial attitude Joseph Stalin reputedly has considerable control, responded to Mr. Willkie's homily with the choicest selection from a Bolshevik's polemical dictionary. "Willkie Is Stirring the Waters" was the title of Pravda's prominently displayed blast. It accused "Mr. Willkie, as an obedient speaking-trumpet," of "reproducing the suspicious cries of the reactionary groups [in the U.S.] which are afraid of a victorious movement forward of the Red Army and the Allied Armies." In Willkie's brief for wholehearted cooperation with Russia, based on "simple American common sense...
...Christmas Day, 1943, Magnitogorsk had a celebration. The first red rivulet of molten iron flowed from the sixth blast furnace to be erected in the city, the second to be built there since the war began...
...meant that: 1) the U.S. would not recognize the revolutionary regime of Bolivia's new President, Major Gualberto Villarroel; 2) the U.S. blamed Argentina and Nazi Germany for putting the Villarroel junta in power; 3) a hemispheric united front was being formed to smash it. An even stronger blast against both Bolivia and Argentina was scheduled for this week...
...TIME, Jan. 3) were still as angry as the three that held out. Aggressive George M. Harrison of the Railway Clerks, an ardent Rooseveltian for ten years, was not muttering about revenge at the polls. The 15 non-operating unions (with 1,100,000 members) issued a joint blast at their treatment...
First Gravedigger. Once ashore, he found an idle generator close to the uncertain fighting, hooked on and recorded what he saw. The recorder, with its magnetized spool of wire, survived the blast of a Jap bomb ten yards away. Then, being a Marine before he was a correspondent, Maypole went to work digging graves. He dug them all day. Next morning he recorded interviews with weary Marines resting from a night's fighting in the bush...