Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic City and San Francisco were eager and able to furnish the space. So was Boston. But there UNO ran into another problem-Russia's Delegate Georgii F. Saksin had blackballed Massachusetts as no fit place for UNO after Superior Court Judge John Swift's recent blast: "Godless Russia has torn the Atlantic Charter to tatters and enslaved millions of our fellow Catholics...
...arms shipments to his opponents. Now Perón called for "mutual comprehension" between Argentina and the U.S., said he hoped for U.S. capital because "it would bring the organizing, technical and progressive spirit distinctive of North American temperament." This week Washington answered-and the answer was like a blast from a siege-gun (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...atom bomb rocketed to the moon ought to blast a magnificent crater there. Some of the fragments would almost certainly escape from the moon's weak gravitation and shower down on earth, as rather sluggish meteors. Scientists, analyzing them, could then prove beyond all doubt that they were not green cheese...
Political Potpourri? Other repercussions of Commander Stelle's blast gave him good cause to regret that he had ever pulled the pin. General Ike Eisenhower promptly pledged Bradley his support "anywhere . . . anytime." Other veterans' organizations rushed to Bradley's defense. Said the hustling, growing American Veterans of World War II (Amvets): "General Bradley has not been playing politics. . . . Before Bradley the VA was an American Legion political potpourri...
Never would the language of headlines -"Battle," "Blast," "Bevin Denounces" -convey their meaning and quality. What happened there was a compound of many things...