Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulties with Congress are concerned, he could easily go to the people and use his enormous prestige to blast his policies through. But before he takes such extreme measures, he probably could clear up a lot of his trouble with Congress by quietly and firmly stiffening his own Administration until the "permanent establishment" understands who's in charge. The mood of frustration in Washington last week, tightened by the prominence of McCarthy & Co., indicated that it was high time for Ike to get moving...
...that his music was too full of "formalism" -i.e., it was too tricky for the Soviet public to understand easily-and that he should compose with more "realism." And when he failed to correct his "errors" quickly enough, his opera, Story of a Real Man, drew a sharp, critical blast from Izvestia. It was not until 1951 that he won another Stalin prize...
Russell served notice that the South would no longer tolerate a Democratic Party led by Northern "liberals" who blast Southern devotion to states' rights and "the right of private property" as "reactionary." (Though he named no names, Russell's listeners easily conjured up visions of such Americans for Democratic Action-style Democrats as Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.) "There are those who would have us drink of the fatal potion of national state socialism," said Russell. "We must resolutely reject their enticements...
Sightseeing during an atomic bombing is unwise; it may destroy the sight of anyone who is otherwise safe from the heat and blast. This is the warning of Ophthalmologist Heinrich W. Rose and Biophysicist Konrad Buettner, who looked into the matter at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine...
...what happens when weekends get out of hand. Last year's frenzied whirl, with its three days of bowlers, water pistols, and Charles River seating assignments, was more than even the less conservative could take. This year, the Key is trying to equal, if not surpass, last year's blast...