Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artillery, but its nth Century Abbaye-aux-Hommes survived. Rouen Cathedral was the only major French church in partial ruin, but it had not been "nearly so hard-hit as Reims was in World War I. From Saint-Lõ forward, U.S. guns had chopped down church steeples to blast out snipers...
...volatile, high-octane boys in the Air Forces were sure that a single B-29 sitting on a runway in Europe, with a "mushroom bomb" in its belly, would be a more convincing show of force, at a fraction of the Navy's cost. They wanted to blast the Administration's foreign-policy makers off the Navy's teak decks and make them airborne...
This might have been cause for some lingering hope; but immovable Mr. Molotov, in a final bitter blast, denounced the conference from stem to stern, and stated that his country would ignore the conference balloting when the Big Four came to grips on the final texts. It was inadmissible, Mr. Molotov said in effect, that the West should gang up on the Soviet group by a mere mustering of votes...
...sere valley below, waves of sulphur rolled out every six hours, as a blast furnace belched. Black smoke poured from the stacks. A 300-ft.-high gas tank (big enough to supply Rio's daily gas consumption ten times over) loomed up by the long sheds that make up the rolling mill...
Could Volta Redonda compete with foreign steel? "Right now," said Soares, "we may need some kind of tariff protection. But in three years, when new ovens and converters are in operation and we are going full blast, we can compete in Brazil with foreign importations." Soares even has fond hopes of some day selling alloy steels abroad. "Volta Redonda," he says, "is the product of the collective will that will overcome all obstacles...