Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State promptly issued a blast: "The statement of the British Minister of Production is entirely in error. . . . This Government from the beginning to the end was actuated by the single policy of self-defense...
...better illustrated than it was near the airstrip at dusk. I had been digging a foxhole for the night when one man shouted: "There is a Jap under those logs!" The command post security officer was dubious, but he handed concussion grenades to a man and told him to blast the Jap out. Then a sharp ping of the Jap bullet whistled out of the hole and from under the logs a skinny little fellow-not much over 5 ft. tall -jumped out waving a bayonet...
...south, General Douglas Mac-Arthur's forces battled for two more Jap airfields on Biak Island off New Guinea; his planes flew from previously captured Jap fields to blast such strong points as Truk in the Caroline Islands. It appeared that this whole, forbidding 2,000-mile chain had now been definitely bypassed...
Father and son were both on missions at sea when the Japs struck on Dec. 7, 1941. They met in Pearl Harbor the following day. Edward said with brash confidence: "We'll blast the Jap Navy out of the Pacific in a week." Spruance unrolled a map, gave his son a lecture from which Edward retired a sobered young man. Edward, a lieutenant commander and a good officer, last week was awaiting his own submarine command...
...James's, which gave its name to the British royal court, was a residence of British sovereigns for 300 years (until Victoria selected Buckingham Palace), later was the official residence of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales. The old brick palace suffered mainly from blast. All its stained glass on the north side was blown in, along with the great mullioned windows of the Chapel Royal. The clock face in the north side of the tower, a London landmark, was blown away...