Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tests taught the Soviets much about packing more punch into a lighter weapon, thus giving them valuable information on how to deliver the warhead by rocket rather than by vulnerable bombers. But the U.S. did not bother to invest the time, money and manpower in a big-bang competition with the Kremlin; the biggest U.S. nuclear bombs are in the 25-30 megaton range. Reasons for the U.S. decision...
...carmine-red houses, crimson trees, ultramarine roads, faces that were part chrome yellow and part cobalt blue. They had no liking for the impressionists, who saw a pear in a bowl as having many different shades of green. "For us," says Heckel, "it was a green pear-bang-in a red bowl." They also scorned impressionist garden paintings that "could just as well have been shifted a few yards to the right or left in the choice of the scene to be shown." The Germans were after a complete and total effect, using colors to build emotion. It was, says...
...books, he would take off his shoes and socks, immerse his feet in a tub of cold water to stay awake. He never fought a duel, but he was no square. He pledged a fraternity, acquired the "Biername" (drinking nickname) of "Toni," and at frothy functions would bang his stein on an oak table in unison with the rest of them. Later, in Cologne, he dazzled the frauleins at the local Pudelnass (Sopping Wet) Tennis Club. Among those who knew him, many were surprised when Konrad Adenauer (class of 1897) grew up to be a politician and eventually Chancellor...
...erupted again in Cambridge. Seven white men were wounded. Through the early hours of the morning, an incessant chaos of ugly noises resounded in Cambridge-shouts of hate and rage, cries of fear, the sounds of careening cars and shattering glass, and, piercing through all the competing noises, the bang, bang, bang of gunfire. Finally, with the local police and state troopers unable to restore order, Governor Tawes ordered the Guard back into Cambridge...
...American League has taken a definite lead this year in providing fireworks, at least fireworks of the verbal variety. Boston's Dick Stuart made the first pregame bang when he publically let it be known that he was miserably unhappy over the failure of Houk to name him to the team. Stuart, who placed second to Joe Pepitone in the players vote, found his omission intolerable. Houk refused to get drawn into an extensive debate, but casually noticed that Stuart had been benched by his own club after a disastrous error in Yankee Stadium...