Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This blast, one of many against conscientious objectors, was uttered during World War I by General George Wood Wingate of New York City's Board of Education. The first 19 months of U.S. participation in World War II have seen more tolerance of pacifists. But last week Florida educational authorities were comparably steamed up about a c.o. teacher. The blast came from Florida's R. P. Terry, member of Dade County's School Board. Last week he got the Board to order the trial of a c.o. for incompetence. The accused: Edward O. Schweitzer, science teacher...
Likable, leathery "Slutsie" McCain is a good officer; in the Bureau of Aeronautics he has done a good job of supervising pilot training and the design and delivery of planes. He has listened to the argument of younger officers that unfettered air attack can blast the Jap out of the sea. Sometimes he has taken their advice. But airmen point out that McCain was 51 and 30 years a Navy man before he won his wings, and that he has held air commands only since 1936. Not even the appointment as new Chief of BuAer of Rear Admiral DeWitt...
...stage was set last week for the hottest political fight U.S. airlines have ever tangled in. The prize: postwar international air transport. Last week, 16 (out of 19) airlines plunked $250,000 into a brand-new committee to fight for "free" worldwide competition. Their aim: to blast out of its top-dog spot Pan American Airways, which monopolized prewar international air travel...
...with colored lamps and reeks of incense burned to cover the telltale, bonfire-like odor of burning marijuana. Most tea pads are supplied with a juke box (known in marijuanese as a "piccolo"). Clients who have assembled to "have a pad" may smoke their own reefers. But commonly they blast the goof-butt collectively, passing a single reefer around from mouth to mouth like a pipe of peace. Next morning, enjoying a heavy sensation very much like an alcoholic hangover, they are said to be "down...
Thus ended a three-year nightmare for top war production officials; one saboteur's lucky blast heretofore could have wrecked the two big side-by-side Soo locks, leaving but one small lock to carry the ore, and so throttle steel production...