Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boys." As the debate rolled on, Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon pitched in. As chairman of the House Appropriations Committee he held too important a post to make a foolish, tactless speech. But Missourian Cannon made one anyhow, with a blast that all but declared war in the first breath, antagonized all possible allies in the next...
...will absolutely demoralize the enemy. We will destroy all his lines of communications. We will blast at the centers of operation and then let our allies send the army in-other boys, not our boys, to hold the ground...
...animals exposed to the atom-bomb blast and radiation in the 1946 Operation Crossroads, none won greater fame than Pig No. 311. A wriggly, 50-lb. shoat, No. 311 was locked in the officers' head (toilet) of the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. Hours later, after the Sakawa had sunk, No. 311 was found swimming gamely in the radiation-polluted waters of Bikini Lagoon. She was irritable, and had a low blood count, but 'within a month she seemed to have recovered...
...Symphony for Strings. Riviera critics, hearing it for the first time, found it "purely scientific music," but noted that "among a sea of dissonances there are hidden some real beauties." Then they were assaulted by Oklahoma-born Roy Harris' Third Symphony; its abrupt ending, with a savage blast from the whole orchestra, left the audience gaping (muttered the perspiring tympanisf. "For this kind of thing I should have six arms"). When the audience recovered, they gave Harris' Third long and generous applause. Not so the critics. Wrote one: "Maybe a bit discouraging to certain ears, but full...
...never set eyes on him, for which I am both sorry and glad; for ... all the men . . . who have seen him are such soft toads, they have done nothing but blast their eyes, and cry, ever since he was killed-God bless you! Chaps that fought like the devil sit down and cry like a wench...