Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally voiced this view was Paraguay's round-faced, Dutch-descended Juan Plate, Minister of Finance. Last week, fed up, Juan. Plate resigned, gave his reasons in an angry document addressed to President Higinio Morinigo. A copy got out to Montevideo, and Dutchman Plate's blast against the Army be came public property...
McKnight took offense at a letter published in the Spectator from John Crossett, Columbia '46, editor of the Jester, undergraduate humor magazine. As a result, Crossett resigned his position, but in his last issue before resignation, he published a front-page editorial blast denouncing the Emergency Council for "toadying" to McKnight's whims...
When a strong cool blast of it (Ella Raines) wakes him up and threatens to make a man of him, everyone except Harry realizes that Sister Lettie's feelings about him exceed the sisterly. From there on the story is ever-crueler melodrama, culminating in a tacked-on ending which the audience is requested not to tell-presumably on the assumption that everybody has the right to feel sold...
...atomic bomb was not merely a new weapon; it was a new dimension of military and political power. Each in its turn, steel and gunpowder and aircraft had gradually changed war and society. In a single day the atomic bomb made a bigger change than any of them. Its blast hit every war office and chancellery on earth...
...slowed by such substances as graphite, paraffin, heavy water or ordinary water, they will touch off other uranium nuclei. In a tiny fraction of a second the reaction will run through a good-sized sample of uranium, containing trillions of atoms, and the result will be a cataclysmic blast...