Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What to do? Just go on living, building, and waiting in tranquillity. Conventional protection against old-fashioned disasters like "tornadoes, fires and earthquakes" would do some good. "The sound approach," said Rear Admiral Parsons, "is to add atomic blast and radiation flash to the list of natural and man-made catastrophes which may at some time be encountered ... If we look ahead five or ten years we must consider the possibility of encountering atomic blast. This possibility may for some places be so small that it can be neglected. We should make every effort to add atomic facts of life...
...years, book publishers have grumbled among themselves about U.S. newspapers' bestseller lists; the book trade held that they should be made more accurate or they should be abolished. This week the Saturday Review of Literature shouted the same thing out loud with a three-page blast at the "respectable [but] hardly scientific" Sunday lists of the New York Times and Herald Tribune...
Long Way from Locke. A few weeks before Churchill's blast, Britain's new socialized medicine scheme had survived its first major test in the House of Commons. Its champion, Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, held arrogant and undisputed possession of the field when Churchill walked out of the House (TIME, Feb. 28). This did not prove that Britain's socialized medicine plan was good medicine or good social organization. But the debate's results did prove that socialized medicine was what the British voters wanted...
...answer to the question "State of Health?") Each morning, after 7:30 a.m. reveille, there were fresh, mimeographed "orders of the day." Sample: 9:30-Unit A to batting cages 1 & 2; Unit B to pitcher's balk practice; Unit C to sliding pit practice. At the blast of a whistle, students shifted to the next class...
Westbrook Pegler was on the receiving end of a blast. Representative Arthur G. Klein (Dem., N.Y.) cried that such "scatological skill . . . could spring only from a sick mind." Klein urged the formation of the Westbrook Pegler Annual Award of Journalistic Infamy, with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...