Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since Frank Sinatra fired off his public, two-bit four-letter blast at Washington Columnist Maxine Cheshire during the Inaugural festivities, he has suffered chilly relations with the White House. At a Manhattan dinner to receive the Thomas A. Dooley Foundation award for being a Splendid American of "forthrightness, honesty, integrity," Sinatra found the other Splendid American, Spiro T. Agnew, playing it cool. The two friends arrived separately, supped separately, departed separately. It was left to Judy Agnew to entertain her husband's old Palm Springs, Calif., host and golfing crony...
...Kennedy also explained her personal involvement in the Feminist party, and advocated that Black women stay out of the party, as the unity of Black people is a more important priority. She did not blast the Afro-Am and Women's Studies, as Lemann implied, but criticized Harvard's treatment of these areas of study as "outrageous" and "disgraceful...
George A. McLaughlin, former City Solicitor, said that the noise from the station would be at a constant level equivalent to two snowmobiles running full blast. He said that the noise would be a nuisance to one-third of the city and would affect two hospitals in the area...
When it is being built, however, the new library will be not only visible but also very noisy. Construction workers will have to blast a 40-foot deep hole in the Yard, and the library will not be completed until Spring...
...they went on a 15-month spree of dynamiting elegant shops, theaters, mailboxes and railway cloakrooms. Joseph Conrad's protagonist in The Secret Agent schemed to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, just as the hero of a novel recently published in London, The Patriot Game, plans to blast the headquarters of the British secret service...