Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strike III were 107 days of turmoil, negotiations, bickering and dickerings. When John Lewis began his war of nerves on the U.S. people and the U.S. Government he had two objectives in mind: 1) to get a raise for his miners-$2 a day if possible; 2) to blast the War Labor Board to smithereens...
...days terror fell from the sky. Each day it grew worse. The intervals grew fewer when troops could smoke with out a bomb blast blowing the cigarets out of their fingers. This was the "prolonged, scientific and shattering" bombing which Winston Churchill had threatened six months before. It had come with a fury such as no spot on earth had experienced before. "Impregnable" Pantelleria, Benito Mussolini's Gibraltar in what he once called Mare Nostrum, was doomed...
...increasing at the rate of 15 to 30% each month. The day after General Eaker spoke, the lull ended. More than 200 U.S. heavy bombers soared out over Germany to attack Cuxhaven and Wilhelmshaven. That same night the R.A.F. sent out its greatest force of four-motored bombers to blast Dusseldorf and Munster with four-ton blockbusters and incendiaries...
Their new mission: to break out of their restricted battle areas, blast the way for the ground troops by theaterwide strokes...
...time the Eighth Army began its artillery preparation, the enemy's dwindling air power had been sucked to the north and was being shot to pieces. But Mary Coningham, blessed with plenty of U.S. and R.A.F. power, also furnished the light bombers and fighters to blast the way for Montgomery's troops on the ground in the Mareth area...