Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president of the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation, onetime Dean of Columbia College (1910-18); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As the amiable, skeptical disburser of the income from Andrew Carnegie's steel-extracted $135,000,000, Keppel acted in the pedant-peppering spirit which prompted his 1938 blast at the "mysteries . . . rites . . . ceremonials. . . of the Ph.D. degree...
...armed forces in a realistic light. From "Crash Dive" one might think that our submarine fleet operates on a Buck-Rogers-of-the 25th-century schedule. Fantastic is the word for it. Tryone Power is the swash buckling sub officer who leads his men through incredible danger to blast the enemy base into technicolored flames and gore. The plot is there, but in the usual and tiring mask of the eternal triangle...
...center, Britons in the south. The Yanks found the terrain worse than Tunisia. The parched, brown land tossed in rocky ridges like the arrested waves of a stormy sea. The roads twisted through the valleys and German guns covered them from the slopes. The Yanks' job was to blast those slopes and scale them...
...target and eleven more on the return. Over Ploesti's 19 sq. mi. of oil derricks, refineries, storage tanks and Tracking plants, the bombers dived dangerously low, within 500 ft. of the ground and often through flames from the fires. One Liberator was destroyed by a bomb blast. Behind them earth and air trembled, patterns of black smoke blossomed and merged into one massive pall...
...Gilhens will modulate a tuba, Dr. LeCorbeilor will filter a bass viol Dr. Tatum will amplify a saxophone, and Mr. Schwetman will blast away on a hot cornet. The faculty is combing the electrons out of its hair and students are invited to witness and heckle at the performance...