Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Badly wounded as he was, he ordered the emplacement of two antitank guns, called his junior officer and gave him cool and careful directions for bringing other guns into position to blast out the enemy. Only after he had everything in order did he allow himself to be carried from the fireswept hilltops. Climbach was taken...
...opening blast of Minnesota's Harold Knutson, ranking Republican of the Ways & Means Committee, suggested that there would be no glad surprises for those who hope for freer world trade. Said he, in an echo of the palmy days of isolationism: "This [tariff reduction] would be tantamount to signing a death warrant for hundreds of businesses and throwing tens of thousands of workers out of employment. Republicans in the House will fight it to the last ditch...
...slung together downriver. The 1,200-foot bridge no longer carried heavy traffic and was frequently blocked off for repairs. But the Germans were determined to avenge the Ludendorff's betrayal of their cause. In six days they sent 104 dive bombers, singly and in threes, to blast at the bridge. It trembled to a thunderous barrage of ack-ack all around...
Through the Walls. Soviet War Correspondent V. Poltoratsky saw Breslau and wrote: "The assault detachments never proceed along the streets. That would be quite impossible. They blast corridors through the centers of rows of houses. A shell fired point-blank at a wall makes a doorway for the gun that fired it. The gun is dragged through and the gunners send another shell through the next wall...
...accompanying article, one of the signers of this blast, Chaplain Albert J. Dubois, 38, detailed the reasons for the statement: "It is a great privilege to be sent in the name of Christ to minister to men of all faiths-and of none." But when an Episcopal chaplain turns to the men who belong to his own church, "he finds less cause for joy. . . . The pathetic weakness of much of our religious education is now most glaringly apparent. . . . We have turned out too many people who are more like the Pharisee than the Publican-members of the Episcopal Church...