Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers invented rye and bourbon whiskey because by the time Midwesterners could get their corn to the Eastern markets the horses that carried it would have had to eat it all up. A Kentucky ironmaster named William Kelly discovered the blast furnace by accident when he let a blast of air pass through his molten iron; even his young wife was so skeptical of the process (he correctly insisted that cold air raises the temperature of molten metal) that she had his head examined...
...week's end the battle was going Tom Dewey's way. Joe Hanley looked like a sure thing in next week's election. Dewey had his three investigations going full blast, had blocked the O'Connell grand jury, at least temporarily, with a court order. Albany had not seen such bitter fighting in years. Said one politico: "There ought to be a truce to exchange prisoners...
Last week, as in every October, Wenatchee's streets were crowded with roving apple pickers. The "apple sheds"-where machines wash, scrub, dry and sort the fruit-ran full blast. Long lines of yellow refrigerator cars waited along the blue Columbia River; at night the switch engines, making up fruit trains, hammered their echoes off the high barren ridge across the river...
Stand by! The lull 'twixt blast and blast...
...cases in the British Medical Journal, washed out the earwax in two cases and infection resulted. He let nine alone for three weeks. Then he washed their ears too, found three broken but uninfected eardrums, six unharmed eardrums. He concluded that earwax is a pretty good protection against blast...