Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oliver Lee each scored one goal to lead the Yardlings to their second victory of the season with no defeats. Gordon, the center forward, scored first at the start of the second period, booting the ball in from a scrimmage in front of the goal mouth. A long blast from the right of the goal in 11:50 of the third period accounted for Lee's score...
Anger in Nanking. After Wedemeyer's blast at the Chinese Government (TIME, Sept. 15), many Chinese thought they knew just what to expect. Wrote Fei Hsiao-tung, sociology professor and one of China's sharpest political commentators: "We must not be offended because the U.S. has become indifferent to China. [But] we are worried for the U.S." Reported TIME'S Nanking correspondent...
...many places stale--the bewildered freshman was done last year in "Barefoot Boy," for example, and the childhood romance and the rocking chairs of the first set were new in "Our Town." Dead characters moon about the stage in a horrid reminder of "Carousel," and Rodger's brasses blast the hero's wedding into a sentimental colossity...
...provide this union coverage (and to wean his workers from the union press), Meyers had revamped the Blast's staff. As editor-in-chief he hired aggressive, 36-year-old Orville Weller, a Navy veteran, allowed Weller to hire a group of associate editors, mostly C.I.O. members. The Blast plans to keep on covering union affairs fully, with no editorial comment...
This calls for some pussyfooting. In its convention issue, for example, the Blast brushed off the issue of the day with a tactful: "The speaker touched upon one of the major convention topics-the Taft-Hartley Bill." However, such reticence pleases not only the management but also the union. It likes the coverage of union doings but does not want the paper to "tamper with union affairs...