Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backhanded blast at the slicker-dicker sort of U.S. truck builder, ODT's Bill Cumming, chief of its Vehicle Maintenance Section, snorted that after World War II smart fleet operators will demand a general sacrifice of "looks" and "streamlining" to efficiency, will insist on trucks with cabs "which a full-sized driver can enter easily-in which he can sit up straight, look out the windshield, get his knees under the steering wheel and operate the controls...
Tony was in no sense a trick horse. But he was intelligent, utterly trusted Mix, and had what Tom called "a genius for acting." He leapt chasms, he dashed down precipices, he received Mix (an indifferent horseman) from a parachute. He carried Mix through a blast of dynamite which knocked a hole in Tony's side. He developed social graces. He managed to keep a straight face when he was honored in the dining rooms of the Savoy in London, the Crillon in Paris, the Astor in Manhattan, and when he was given quarters in the check room...
...move to consolidate gains of the past year and prepare the terrain for further advance along the journalistic front, editors of the Muzzle Blast, Military Science Department weekly, have reorganized their command and appointed new officers...
Started last year in an attempt to tie together the many classes and sections of the ROTC, the Muzzle Blast reports drills, social events, and any other news affecting Mil Sci, men, and also announces official departmental notices...
Tough little Harry S. Truman, tillerman on the Senate Committee investigating the war effort, made move No. 2 last week to get at the heart of the controversy over the quality of U.S. war planes. Move No. 1 was his blast on Sept. 14 at their inferior performance in some weight and type categories. Now he called Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, for questioning...