Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's popular U.S.-needling Sunday Pictorial also loosed a blast: "Too many passages develop into a justification of the fact that, time and again [General Eisenhower] overrode British plans and demands. And the extravagance of the bouquets he hands to some of the American Generals is in strange contrast to the chilly praise with which he so nearly damns Montgomery...
...Blast from Chicago...
...positive was pugnacious old Clarence Budington Kelland, the slick fictioneer who is also national committeeman from Arizona-a part of the country where dinosaur relics are still found. One day last week, Bud Kelland delivered himself of a blast. Said he: "Dewey's campaign was smug, arrogant, stupid, and supercilious ... It was a contemptuous campaign, contemptuous alike to our antagonists and to our friends. The Albany group proved themselves to be geniuses in the art of stirring up an avalanche of lethargy. No issue was stated or faced." What was needed, said Kelland, was a "housecleaning from...
...rough quarters. Through the bright moonlight Chinese air force planes droned continuously overhead, some with bombs which dropped with a heavy concussion, some with supplies to be parachuted to encircled General Huang. Artillery, which was dug in behind the village, kept up an intermittent fire-first came the muzzle blast, then the scream of the shell overhead, then a distant crunch as the shell exploded...
...blast, which awakened House residents at 2 a.m. Saturday and which was heard as far north as the Law School, was touched off by Cross, former bagpiper for the Band, according to friends of his who said last night he had planned the exploit for several weeks...