Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were unexpectedly few injuries from masonry (52), blast (26), burns...
Obviously the main problem arises from the fact that four-tenths of the moon's surface (Winthrop's so-called "backside") is inaccessible to bombardment from the earth. To blast these regions I have designed a cannon combining the better features of a trench mortar and a slow curve. Consisting of a curved barrel mounted on a base equipped with weather bureau, barracks, soda fountain and bond booth, its aim and fire power is controlled by the formula given on the enclosed drawing...
...simmered since the Rio Conference of 1942, when the U.S. seemed to favor big Peru in the settlement of its 112-year-old boundary dispute with little Ecuador. Last week the resentment boiled over. There were cries of "Yankee imperialism." The Assembly met in secret session, issued a blast in the press condemning the Peruvian boundary settlement. It inferentially warned its Washington representatives not to give away any more Ecuadoran territory. The nation had already lost altogether too much...
...editors of the New Republic found in the New York Times: 1) an editorial deploring unnecessary travel; 2) four columns of resort ads, "describing, often in glowing terms, the delights of a midwinter vacation"; 3) "two columns of news about winter resorts indicating that social life is going full blast. . . ." Said the New Republic: "It is obvious that something is wrong...
...social order, mutual respect, public morale." Further, the dictator did not think that political parties were necessary ingredients. Snorted La Nación, Buenos Aires' ponderous liberal daily: "Democracy without parties is inconceivable." Into the flashing Morinigo teeth it tossed Lord Bryce's well-known definition.* The blast was obviously intended as an indirect slap at Argentina's own intolerant military regime...