Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catholics, the article contends, rarely take note of Protestant doings. But among Protestant sects, "there is seldom a convention or a conference held . . . when they do not pass resolutions and, Moscow-like, deliver a blast at [Catholics]." The Catholic Church, through the centuries, has become accustomed to "misrepresentation and slander. . . . She remains unperturbed, attends to her own business quietly and all the while gains ground while Protestantism loses...
...services recently proposed by a special committe appointed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plan would 1) unify military command, 2) set up an independent air force. Reservist Doolittle, who does not have to worry about a postwar military career, went out of his way to blast the committee's one dissenting member, an "elderly retired Admiral" (67-year-old J. O. Richardson). Said Doolittle: "[His] is the type of retarded military thinking that held ... aviation back...
...start on Nov. 15. ¶ The committee will not waste time junketing to Pearl Harbor. ¶ All Army & Navy personnel will be free to testify without any fear of subsequent court-martial or detriment to their future promotion. ¶ The question of whether or not Cordell Hull's blast of Nov. 26, 1941 actually set off the war (as the Army Pearl Harbor Board had charged) was apparently settled; it did not. Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the finding of documents in a sunken Jap vessel which showed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been approved by the Jap High...
...Even comic-strip characters had entered the debate. Isolationist Orphan Annie complained that "international gangsters" aided by "politicians" had stolen Daddy Warbucks' atomic secrets, and Saddlesoap Jones in Smilin' Jack bought a B-29 and two atomic bombs from the government to blast a hurricane (see cuts...
...sound box-office principles that it might do as a cinema vehicle for Errol Flynn. It has all the required ingredients : commando raid, secret agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...