Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stout-hearted crew retaliated with a long blast from their whistle, attracting a nearly police car, which proceeded to apprehend the responsible Cambridge urchins, thus putting an abrupt end to the reign of terror...
...gamble might succeed. The Allies could certainly land in France, Belgium or Holland. They might be able to hold a beachhead until they grew strong enough to blast into the formidable German defenses in depth. But it was a terribly long chance...
Good Luck. But ordinary escapades no longer bear relating. An Air Corps lieutenant still flies whose chute failed to open at two hundred feet until his plane exploding just beneath him sent up a great blast of gas and flame-enough to blow the chute open, but not quite enough to set it afire, though the inside of it was blackened like cork. Another lieutenant swimming down a river had to fight his way through crocodiles, slashing at them with his heavy jungle knife. He escaped with a couple of nasty tooth marks in his shoulders...
Drew's first blast at the commission report on June 5 led to the Government charging him with sedition. Then the Government dropped the charge, as the hottest political potato picked up in years. Still mad, Colonel Drew wrote a 32-page criticism of the commission report. He sent one copy to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie ("Wee Willie") King, other copies to leaders of the Conservative, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and Social Credit parties in the House of Commons. A copy also went to the Canadian press, which sent it out to member papers marked "Hold for Release...
...second and third floors of the brick building will contain special offices and file rooms for the Mil Sci instructors as well as the Muzzle Blast office, while the first floor will be occupied by the Cadet Headquarters and library, in addition to the recruiting office for the Enlisted Reserve. The headquarters are complete with a game room in the basement which will be used for battery or battalion meetings and parties...