Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parker and Clyde Barrow as a teen-ager in the early 1930s and served six years in prison as their accomplice in the murder of a Texas deputy sheriff, but later claimed that the pair had threatened to kill him if he tried to leave them; of a shotgun blast in a predawn quarrel with an acquaintance; in Houston...
Suicide or accident? It is impossible to know. What has only now been determined is that in the last year and a half of his life he was discontented. As Hendrix seemed to see it, he was a prisoner of his image, his managers and the very blast of sound that had catapulted him to fame. The commercial formula was so successful that his managers forbade any change in it. And so every night that he was not performing, Hendrix would retreat to a recording studio in Manhattan (which he partly owned and called Electric Lady) to play...
...elected to the lower house of the Diet during World War II, a political fling that landed him in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison for three years while U.S. officials tried unsuccessfully to prosecute him as a war criminal. Protesting his innocence, Sasakawa hired a big brass band to blast martial songs as he strode proudly into the clink. Behind bars, he became fast friends with Kishi and other imprisoned Japanese officials who later returned to power. He also got the idea of how to increase his fortune when an American guard threw a copy of LIFE into his cell...
...integrity, exuding a self-assurance and even-handedness that have helped to establish a widespread and deeply-rooted faith in his honesty. What's more, I was talking the other day to a steelworker in Indianapolis. He had to talk loudly because of the noise of the steaming blast furnaces that were spewing forth their glaring sparks a few yards away. He had very heavy eyebrows, and the T-shirt covering his thick chest was soiled with sweat. "You know," he said, "this guy Ford is real candid...
Appointed to the National War Labor Board, Morse broke with the Administration when the striking mine workers were granted a larger wage boost than other workers had been granted. After an angry blast, Morse resigned. Then he ran for the Senate in Oregon as a Republican. Franklin Roosevelt sent him a message urging him to give the President "hell" if he wanted...