Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London News Chronicle wrote the epitaph on the grave of earlier hopes : "Nothing less than a full-scale sea, land and air assault can blast (the Jap) out of Burma." From Chungking, TIME'S Correspondent T. H. White filed a dispatch through U.S. and Chinese censors: "It is no secret anywhere in the world that the decision of the Battle of Asia will be fought in Burma some time...
...Elisabet used her beauty to shoehorn her way into art classes (strictly stag, up to then) and to blast men's balance. Perhaps her greatest conquest was Germany's ace misogynist, atrabilious old Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was babbling utter fatuities. "By God," he gloated, "I almost feel like a married man!" When Elisabet reminded him that, once his polysyllabic frock coat was stripped off, his animadversions against women were those of any Junker or farm hand, all he could manage was to blame it on his mother...
...Today's troops may awake to the blast of a bugle molded completely of plastic, brush their teeth with paste from a plastic tube, drink from a plastic canteen. In testing plastics for canteens, the Army Quartermaster Corps set higher standards than previous materials could meet. Tests include freezing the canteen while 90% full of water, dropping it ten feet onto concrete, tasting and smelling distilled water kept in the canteen 24 hours at tropic heat...
...sessions. There was a bad moment when the M. C. walked off the stage to look for Hawkins and Brown so that all could jam the final number together. Frankie saved the day by just tootling a few notes, and before you knew it, everyone was going full blast. At the conclusion, he got up and started walking off the stage, playing all the time, and everyone followed. It was tremendously effective...
While here, Colonel Doniat was especially interested in improving the spirit and cohesiveness of the R. O. T. C. as a whole, and was a firm supporter of such activities as the Muzzle Blast and battery parties...