Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in four years from the restrictions of movies and radio, he walked on stage his first day, stretched elegantly, and said: "Gee, I'm glad to be back on Broadway." Just then, blasters in an excavation near the Paramount let go with a charge of TNT, and the theater shivered. Cracked Danny: "Never mind the cannon, fellas; just tell 'em I'm glad to be back...
...Hiroshima, by his order, he was aboard the cruiser Augusta, returning from his first international conference at Potsdam. He rushed to the officers' wardroom, announced breathlessly: "Keep your seats, gentlemen. . . . We have just dropped a bomb on Japan which has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It was an overwhelming success." Applause and cheering broke out; the President hastened along to spread the word in the other messes...
...nation which wanted to use it, the bomb was a cheap way to wage war-perhaps ten, perhaps 100 times cheaper than fighting with TNT...
...Much of the effect of the atomic bombs in Japan was due to flimsy construction. In a steel-and-concrete U.S. city, one of the bombs would have done no more damage than a ten-ton TNT bomb...
Steve O'Neill, more confident than ever about his TNT, could go to Sunday Mass with no worldly intent to take an extra tug at his beads-in supplication for so mundane a thing as a World Series victory. Once again the Tigers were favorites, and Jolly Cholly slept poorly, knowing that Hal Newhouser would be throwing them in against his club...