Word: blastingly
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Fascists were fearful lest a vital Italian War industry, motor-making, fall into foreign hands. A blast from Il Duce almost immediately shriveled the Ford-Isotta deal...
...Blaine blast drove Mr. Franklin from the Senate gallery where he was watching the climax of his endeavors. He returned in time, however, to break a Senate rule by scoring the roll call which totaled his defeat...
...Blast furnaces are lurid enough to make striking symbols, and to many churchmen they have long been symbolic of evil. Few churchmen have ever been able to think of a blast furnace without considering how uncomfortable it would be to work near one and what long days the grimy, bemuscled thousands of the steel industry spend at their laborious, heated calling...
There has, however, been a movement counteracting the prevalent stuffy conditions of the atmosphere in classrooms, by opening the windows and letting in the icy blast. Again, there comes an impediment to this policy, for after five minutes refrigeration near the windows, he unfortunate ones whose fate it is to be so located are prone to close them. In effect although the stifling conditions and foul air may be a means of promoting one's indifference, even the most unconventional hesitate to yawn in Professor Kittredge's face...
Generations of Harvard men have wiped the dust from the platform of the New Lecture Hall and from the window recesses of Harvard 6 with their head gear. The venerable Stetson has sheltered many a worried head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...