Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortage of Time. Washington itself was divided. Many in the Administration wanted to begin an orderly reconversion to peace now, as against the Somervell school, who think that any talk of reconversion now is next door to treason. To the Reconversionists, General Somervell's blast seemed like a blow below the belt...
Glass, Glass, Glass. London had developed a deep and understandable phobia: glass. It had felt the blast of high explosives before. Blast would, as it did, strip the clothing off a woman near a factory window, leave the factory and its machines virtually undamaged. It would, as it did, suck the beer out of a mug in a man's hand, leave the mug, the man and his hand unhurt. It would also kill without leaving a visible wound...
...robombs' blast, for some strange reason, also shattered and scattered more glass-as sharp-piked shards and as fine-ground, bulletlike pellets. Far from a bomb's concussion center, well beyond the range of missiles caught up in its cyclonic force, Londoners found themselves caught in terrible gusts of shattered and pulverized glass. If the blast caught a man near a window, he could lose the skin and flesh of his face and eyelids. Often the glass would drive deep into eyes...
Part of the British press met the U.S. State Department's recent blast against Argentina (TIME, Aug. 7) with a counterblast. Wrote the London Daily Mail's Alastair Forbes last week: "Argentina has found herself in the same state as a small Chicago shopkeeper of the old days who refused to pay 'protection' to the local gang." He predicted that bullying the Argentine military Government would only increase its popularity, that sanctions against Argentina would damage the Allies...
Janie's father (Edward Arnold), who publishes the town paper, writes a blast about youth's pitfalls, but while his wife (Ann Harding) and his best friend (Robert Benchley) demur, the mote in his own eye grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy...