Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blast. "If there had been any," he said, "I would have known of them...
House functions, ladies' luncheons?and shoots off for appreciative newsmen, telling it as Martha thinks it is. Her telephonic voice has become equally familiar to editors. She calls them in the small hours of the morning with pungent advice, such as her 2 a.m. blast to the Arkansas Gazette: "I want you to crucify Ful-bright?and that's that." She has been known to use the blue wall phone in the privacy of the bathroom "so that John won't know," enabling detractors to insinuate that she sometimes takes a drink or two too many. Martha's friends, however...
...Agence France-Presse report from Hanoi Saturday said the city "shook today from the blast of bombs only 25 miles away...
...permissiveness" rather than the National Guardsmen who did the shooting. But he had reason for silence: the presiding judge forbade him and 300 others who testified from making any "critical comments." Last week, six days after a federal judge removed his legal gag, White spoke out with a blast at what he views as a new threat looming on U.S. campuses...
...share a strong sense of national pride. They believe that Poland is a vital part of Western Europe in spite of the overwhelming presence of Russia to the east. They feel a stirring of national pride each day at noon when the state radio broadcasts a single prolonged trumpet blast. It commemorates the watchman who stood atop St. Mary's Church in Cracow and spotted the Tartars invading from the east. He sounded his horn in warning until felled by a Tartar arrow...