Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blast...
...YORK TIMES recently carried an editorial entitled "The Virtues of the Neutron Bomb," defending the most recent piece of Strangelovian paraphernalia. The editorial stated that the neutron bomb's "modest blast and intense but circumscribed and short-lived radiation make it particularly effective against advancing tanks and armies." The cigar-chomping military brass must be dancing a jig of delight, detecting more support for their new toy. Meanwhile, most folks are sorely disappointed: at least another year before the Pentagon alchemists conjure up the Doomsday Machine. Now let's see...how many grams of uranium does it take to wipe...
...which is optional, but recommended, reading.) the tweeting birdies, the busy bees, the balmy air, the warm zephyrs that breeze through the Crimson shop and blow my columns to pieces, casting my sentient and often hilarious lines away into the nether. But, no more will balmy bursts of breeze blast these words off galley sheets and leave you, dear reader, baffled. I have placed on reserve at Lamont and Hilles libraries all previously blown away lines, and will continue...
Prices have doubled, and the industry operates at full blast...
...woven songs, the foremost among them Bonnie Lander's funny and beautifully-timed Joanne, the bitch-queen, older-and-wiser friend. Landers dominates every scene she is in but never hams it up, the only disappointment in her performance being her rendition of "The Ladies Who Lunch," a biting blast about bored wives that is quite possibly the best song in the show. Landers lacks the sheer vocal power required to bring it off, and she was drowned out by the massive and over-amplified 37-piece orchestra behind the scrim. This exasperating fate befell several other members...