Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is not to deny the important place held by the Boston Symphony in American music. It has a finer tone and greater consistency than any other major ensemble. I do wish, however, to blast the cult of unintelligent Koussevitzky-worship which has become a blight upon the city. The week after week performances of almost any important orchestra are more satisfactory to this viewer and to many others...
...good to last. A cold Arctic blast gathered momentum west of Hudson Bay, moved eastward across the Lakes. Canadians sighed: winter was here again...
...through another night, and through the morning of the third day. Then, late in the afternoon, the crowd stirred. Ambulances began arriving. Two doctors drove up and went into the tunnel. Crazy news spread from sooty, bone-tired rescue workers. Nine men had survived the blast, had bratticed themselves into a side tunnel. Eight of them were alive. Women jostled and called as the blanketed forms were carried out on stretchers. There had been few such miracles in the Southern coal country...
...letter to Allen-for all the 18,000,000 readers to see. What Pearson did not tell the readers is that when Allen went to war, Pearson offered him what Allen considered so small a share of their column's income that Allen turned it down in a blast of ex-cavalryman's rage...
...Most up-to-date sound: an atomic bomb explosion, as used in Mutual's The Human Adventure. This was a synthesis of three recorded noises: a dynamite blast, escaping steam and the clatter of a boiler room...