Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wooden tables, poured stiff jolts of whiskey into paper cups for the grimy, beaten rescue crews. The news from underground was always bad. They found dozens of men who had been killed by the black damp (carbon dioxide) which had rolled out of old side entries opened by the blast. But it was worse farther on. Crews working near the blast had been burned, riddled with flying coal, and squeezed by concussion until their chests caved in and their tongues protruded...
...Crown if her father died. As a private person she would not come of age for three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing her as Princess of Wales (she is still only Heiress Presumptive, on the supposition that a male Heir...
...night last week, McNear's rugged individualism boomeranged. As he strolled near his home in Peoria, somebody murdered him with a single shotgun blast. At week's end there were few clues, but $41,615 in rewards...
While Republicans blinked and Democrats grinned, there came another blast. South Dakota's ultra-conservative Republican Senator Harlan J. Bushfield bounced up to declare, "The leaders of Congress are in confusion among themselves. . . . We have failed in everything which we promised the voters. ... I predict that unless the Republicans come alive . . . . they will fail again when the next election comes around...
...disciplinary action if they employed "the services of a commercial tutoring school." Although the battle had been largely won, the system did not die easily. Two days after the ban had been enacted, the Crimson was able to obtain a picture of a Parker-Cramer cram session going full blast. Parker-Cramer promptly filed suit for $55,000 and lost...