Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blast against Communism was the Prime Minister's own. He had picked his own time for loosing it: last week's valedictory to politics. He had written it without consulting the Cabinet, and he spoke it without relation to Ernest Bevin's anti-Russian blast in Britain (see INTERNATIONAL). If the words seemed strong from the mouth of a Mackenzie King, who usually speaks softly, it was because he had been alarmed by what he learned of the world's state during his visit to Europe last November. Excerpts...
Stevenson, who has never campaigned for office, planned no slam-bang fight. He would work hard, but quietly. Most of the fireworks would come from Douglas. He announced that, as one ex-marine dealing with another, he hoped to blast Curly Brooks "in every county, every town and before every factory gate" in Illinois...
Murderer Orville Turley, 54, a paretic, and Kidnaper Richard Heilman, 24, were trapped in a trailer. "Come on in and get us," snarled Turley. A blast of shots killed him, wounded Heilman. Killer A. B. Tolley, 21, was shot and captured after a wild exchange of gunfire...
...parked Dakota, transforming both into a ballooning cloud of orange fire and black smoke. Out of the cloud ran the pilot, streaming flame, to shrivel and die before their eyes. At that moment Forrester realized an important fact. Ever since he had lost his wife in a bomb blast in London he had been trying coldly to get himself killed in combat. Now he knew that he didn't, after all, want...
...University of Minnesota. Despite the outcome, both games had their moments of excitement and were creditable performances by the Crimson, who were by this time without the services of both Johnny Crocker and Yetman. In the opener, the Varsity overcame a four-goal deficit with a furious offensive blast in the final period, only to slip behind again in the closing minutes to go down to an 8 to 6 defeat...