Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rock. In Ketchikan, Alaska, Mrs. Fred West awoke suddenly from a sound sleep, found that a construction blast had dropped a huge boulder on the pillow next her head...
...since the Blocks of Granite. As the people waltzed out of the room across the way Vag refused the bottle and began to be irritated by the noise. Down the hall, the other party had broken into "Soldiers Field" and the guy upstairs had his Cocktail Music going full blast. Although it seemed to slow up the guy from the south, Vag turned down the bottle again and couldn't get back behind the closed door fast enough...
King Juda, the Paramount Chief of Bikini, and his gentle, easy-living and pious (missionary-converted) people had gracefully consented to move when the Navy told them that a monstrous Thing would blast their island. Rongerik, some 100 miles to the southeast, was just as large, just as green as Bikini, and it had more coconuts and pandanus fruit. By last week Rongerik's huts had tin roofs and wooden floors; there was a big water cistern, a radio, a fine council house. But Rongerik was not home...
...bomb that wrecked a wing of the British Embassy in Rome was not the worst blast to hit the West's position in Italy last week, but it was pretty bad. One of the Tommies who guard the Embassy described the explosion...
Chase, unwittingly, was the greatest press-agent bookies, procures, and pornographists ever had. Hardly a month would go by in the 20's without a detailed blast in the pages of Boston paper, great bonfires of indignation over the police department, the commissioners, the district attorneys, even the courts. As a result, Chase was twice publicly made quite the fool, once by the dyspeptic H. L. Mencken (who, incidentally, got valuable publicity for the infant Mercury) and once by the Society's own board of directors, who retreated in horror as Chase inveigled, almost hounded a book seller into trafficking...