Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hepburn's unexpected blast left Premier Drew and almost every politician in Canada guessing at Mitch's next move. On national and international questions, Mitch had often been spectacularly wrong. In the early days of the war he had persuaded his Legislature to condemn Mr. King's war effort. The Prime Minister promptly called a national election, was returned with an increased majority. Hepburn gloomily predicted that Germany would beat Russia. Shortly after Pearl Harbor he gravely embarrassed Ottawa by sneering that "the proud U.S. Fleet has gone into hiding." But in earthy Ontario politics, earthy, colorful...
...supply its Kwantung Army in Manchuria and its growing legions in China, Japan has begun to lean more heavily upon its steel industry in Manchuria. Blast furnaces there are closer to the source of coking coal, and the finished products can be shipped overland to the armies, easing the burden on the Japs' overtaxed, dwindling ship tonnage. Greatest of the steel works in Manchuria is at Anshan...
...Cruisers, battlewagons and tin cans are standing in amazingly close to the shore, pounding away with all their guns. We knew the island was to catch some 12,000 rounds of projectiles, 5-inch or bigger. But that was just a statistic; now we see it. We hear the blast of the big guns and the ripping-silk sound of the heavy shells sailing to their targets. We see the warships with halos of yellow smoke and the bursts of fire and black smoke back of the beach...
Roen spent all summer of 1943 in the first part of his salvage-getting 14,000 tons of the ore out of the boat (the rest was left for ballast). Under water pressure the ore had coalesced into a solid mass; four divers had to fight the current to blast it into chunks with compressed...
...almost dawn when we came to blow the fighter strip. There was grey over the hills and we were eating the last bacon & eggs at the table. Demolition bombs hammered the air above, beyond, all about us with their concussion. Sometimes the blast would be infinitesimal, other times it would catch and rock...