Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years later Burns and a youth named Bern rented a second-floor loft and opened BB's College of Dancing. They got together a four-piece band so noisy that it had to play near an open window to let the bulk of the syncopation blast into the street. This also served as ballyhoo. The boys got some of their customers by going to Ellis Island and approaching immigrants just off the boats. The sales talk: one of the first requisites of U.S. citizenship was a $5 course of dancing lessons...
...sort of thing had happened before, and OWI, expressly created to keep the U.S. informed as rapidly as possible about war developments, had often promised that it would not happen again. The U.S. press went after Elmer Davis. Red-faced with shame and anger, he uprose, turned a bitter blast on his opposite number, British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken. Barked mild-mannered Mr. Davis: ". . . flagrant and possibly dangerous breach.... I hope . . . you will take steps to make sure that British censorship . . . keeps Reuters in line." Before a critical House of Commons Brendan Bracken indirectly replied that he would...
...exporters launched a gusty blast at Government controls which banned the shipment of U.S. fats & oils to Mediterranean importers. They were angry because fats & oil needs in the Middle East are being supplied by British exporters exclusively. Joint Anglo-American economic strategy and shipping shortages dictated this allocation, but the exporters still feared a sellout to shrewd British traders...
Many people looking at your excellent picture of the much-bombed Focke-Wulf plant (TIME, Nov. 1) may pause to wonder. Notice that the bomb craters appear as small round mounds of earth and the W-shaped blast walls appear as zigzag trenches...
...night the alert lasted only half an hour. But one heavy bomb plumbed into a crowded dance hall and milk-bar. When the dust of the blast had settled, the district all around looked to eyewitnesses "like a battlefield," recalled the horrors of the blitz and jarred Londoners out of their recent tendency to ignore air-raid alarms...