Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even New York's America-firsting Daily News threw in the sponge. "The Marshall Plan parade," grumped the News last week, "is swinging down the avenue ... in full blast now, and among the paraders are most of the leading politicians of both parties." It was true. As they had not done since the end of the war, Congressmen and the Administration were marching last week with practically everyone in step towards a common objective-the saving of Europe...
...Deadman's Isle, in the eye of the blast, To Deadman's Isle she speeds her fast; By skeleton shapes her sails are furled And the hand that steers is not of this world...
...aimed one blast straight at Scripter Lawson, called him "an out & out Communist." The Screen Writers' Guild, he said, is "under complete Communist domination," and so is the Story Analysts' Guild. For that matter, 44 of 100 plays produced on Broadway since 1936 "have contained material to further the Communist line...
...entire north wing of the building was materially damaged by the blast, and the furniture in several of the rooms was totally destroyed. Though the culprit responsible was never caught, startled College authorities surmised that some prankster, underestimating the potentialities of his boxful of gunpowder, had placed the bomb in the cellar, with its fuse, long enough to permit escape, running out the window...
...Where Is Your Respect?" The man who leveled this blast was no third-rater. Gregarious, greying Leslie Roberts, 51, a longtime newsman, was executive assistant to Canada's Minister of National Defense in the early years of the war, later a war correspondent. Currently, he free-lances for such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Collier's and Canada's top slick, Maclean's. On the side, he turns out a thrice-weekly column for the Montreal Herald...