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Word: blasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what Mamma sends down from Yonkers, where the Italianos now live. She owns Manhattan real estate, has an interest in a California bank and a Texas oil well, but she keeps warm by huddling in the kitchen of her Greenwich Village apartment, with both stove and oven going full blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Snow Train. The New York Central Railroad developed a snow blower that harnesses the exhaust of a B-36 jet bomber engine to blast its freight-yard tracks and switches free of snow. Mounted on a modified caboose with a huge nozzle, the engine can blow away snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Products, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...good chance of getting down alive One necessary precaution is some way saving him in case the launching rocket misbehaves soon after leaving the ground. Project Mercury, the National Aeronatics and Space Administration's man space program, plans to accomplish by a rocket-pushed escape device, signed to blast man and capsule free. I week NASA tested this mechanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sam Got Down | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Response. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Frank Erickson was fined $300 after chasing a woman driver with an exhaust whistle on his car going full blast, frightening her so badly she drove her car into a river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...heat throughout the whole film. Orson Welles stirs the ashes, and Lee Remick as Eula, the wife of Varner's lazy son Jody, (Anthony Franciosa) casts a warm glow over the theatre by performing some marvelous romping in and out of bed (with the phonograph playing dixieland full blast). One gets the feeling, consequently, that Jody, who is being pushed out of his father's favor by the stranger Ben Quick (Paul Newman), does not have it so rough...

Author: By Martin Nemirow, | Title: The Long, Hot Summer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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