Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacred moment. The bereaved family and other mourners were gathered one day last week around a gravesite in National Memorial Park cemetery, near Falls Church, Va. across the Potomac from Washington. Suddenly, as the rabbi bowed his head in prayer, a raucous blast of hillbilly music disrupted the burial ceremony. As the casket was lowered into the earth, it was accompanied by another chorus of mooing mountain music. Afterward, when 20 shocked and weeping mourners protested, Robert F. Marlowe, proprietor of National Memorial Park, was sorry but not surprised. The hillbilly music was just another episode in a running battle...
...trick to divert our attention while others were encircling the village. We heard a whistle. Knives, grenades, submachine guns came out of the baskets carried by the Communists. With submachine guns firing, they made their way through the screaming crowds. One group entered the church. I heard a blast of machine-gun fire and screams. The children went out of their classrooms to see what all the noise was about. I saw the Communists shooting with rifles on the children. I don't know how many were killed because I escaped at this moment...
...railroad's 40-mile branch line between Massena, N. Y. and Huntingdon, Que. The Central sees the short, easy-grade line as an important link in its plan to do a heavy freight business by picking up Labrador ore at the Montreal terminus, shipping it southwest to U.S. blast furnaces...
...easy. Take the piece about the janitor and Senator Mac Venner. That could have been a pretty funny situation, but somehow it turned into a Ray Bradbury science fiction with everything from flying saucers to atomic cocktails. I think we might have missed an opportunity to really blast those damn investigations...
...take exception to Author Oliver La Farge's blast against our public schools [TIME, Feb. 8]. Let's not look upon acquiring an education in the same way we look upon acquiring a Cadillac! There certainly is room for improvement in our educational system, but more private schools are not the answer...