Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also dodged one potential political hot spot by turning down a speaking date before an expected 200,000 A.F.L. and C.I.O. members at a Chicago Labor Day celebration. Labor would expect him to blast the Taft-Hartley Act, but he could hardly do that to labor's satisfaction on a law he was now duty-bound to administer...
...Crump, snowcapped political boss of Tennessee, paused in a blast at Communism to explain himself: "I detest red . . . my hair was red for many years. I was kind to it, kept it trimmed and perfumed, slept with it, always had it on top. Yet, with all my kindness, love and affection for it, it deserted me-turned . . . traitor. It is now as white as the peaks of Mt. McKinley...
...janitors moved in to sweep up, 41-year-old Howard Robard Hughes fired a parting blast: "When Senator Brewster saw he was fighting a losing battle against public opinion, he folded up and took a run-out powder . . . headed for the backwoods of Maine. There was no reason for the other Senators ... to continue his losing battle ... if he was too cowardly to stay here and face the music...
When The Bomb went off, more than 250,000 lived in Hiroshima. Of these, 175,000 survived the blast. Today, Hiroshima's population has grown back to 210,000. Almost every woman has a baby on her back. Of 60,000 dwellings destroyed, 23,000 have been replaced. The most significant feature of this effort is that 98% of it is black-market construction carried out by the people themselves in defiance of plans and rules...
...nearly killed Hitler on July 20, 1944) as a Johnny-come-lately with half-Nazi ideas of his own. It was Stauffenberg who lugged a bomb-laden briefcase into field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, and left it to explode under Hitler's nose. The blast gave Hitler a good shaking up, and as a result of it more than 50 general staff officers died. Author Gisevius, one of the few plotters who survived, went into hiding, escaped to Switzerland when the OSS smuggled him a forged passport. Readers may balk at the rightist, sometimes self-righteous tone...