Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1850s and now irreplaceable, had begun to heave upward. They buckled into a ridge 20 feet long. Capitol architects guessed the cause was a sudden change of temperature. Reporters happily accepted the theory that someone had opened a door from the Senate chamber and let out a blast...
They consider the irreducible minimum to be a ready, full-strength aerial spearhead of 70 groups (some 8,000 planes) able to carry the war to the enemy's homeland, blast his cities and industry, cut up his slow-moving land armies. Behind the spearhead: eleven fully equipped combat divisions (some 132,000 men) freed from routine chores and immediately available to seize advance bases and begin the clinching land assault. The total: an Army and Air Force of 1,070,000 men, supported in flank actions by the 500,000-man Navy and Marine Corps...
Power supply is no problem. Colonel McCutcheon describes the various reaction engines which will power guided missiles, at least until atomic propulsion is perfected. Best known is the familiar turbojet. A compressor draws air through the engine's nose. Burning fuel heats and expands it. The hot blast roars out the tail at over 1,000 miles an hour, giving a mighty push. Before the gases reach the open, they spin a turbine, which powers the compressor...
...they were ready to believe that Mussolini et al. would stamp out Communism. They were also antiliberal, anti-Negro, and anti-Semitic for a number of reasons, including Irish racial snobbism. As fiction, Moon Gaffney is hardly rnore than earnest and competent, but it is most impressive as a blast against bias, false Irish pride and the local little Father Coughlins...
Lucian Freud's blast at British painting [TIME, May 26] is not the first time one who found refuge in Britain has assailed the British. . . . The strange thing is that the very qualities which annoy such as he, account largely for Britain being a haven for the victims of intolerance in other countries. Mr. Freud's accusation that British art "is all just inspired sketching" caused me to look through a book of etchings by various British artists. Inspired is the right word...