Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile computer-controlled system of tracked trams designed to transport passengers around the terminal perimeter. Because the system was apparently oversensitized, the cars grind to a dismaying halt if even a light bulb fails. The trains often skip stations or fail to open doors after stopping, while passengers inside bang on the windows to get out and those waiting to board bang on the glass to get in. Houston Industrialist Howard Purvis says that he was recently trapped aboard Airtrans "for two complete circuits. Finally, I got off close enough to my flight gate to race to it. Barely made...
...strike-embattled administration (TIME, May 20). Yet many others argued that nuclear bombs will have no effect on the economic ills of a country where incomes continue to plummet and prices rise faster than a mushroom cloud. As a Hindustan Times editorial observed last week: "A nuclear bang, albeit peaceful, means little without a corresponding release of economic and political energy...
Easier Than Heroin. Taylor, for one, is convinced that terrorists could actually fashion the stolen material into a bomb in a matter of weeks. To achieve the biggest bang, the bombmakers would probably choose to convert their purloined material into a metal. Plutonium and U-235 can be transported as compounds that do not readily lend themselves to the making of the most efficient weapons, but the techniques for purification are, says Taylor, in some respects no more difficult than refining heroin in an illicit laboratory...
Hall, who mentioned that the International Center is doing up a "bang-up job," said that he found out it existed only two months...
...swerved up to the space between University Hall and Thayer. I saw him pause and look around to see if anyone was watching. Then he began to scream. Slowly he pulled himself up from his chair, turned around, closed the arms of the chair with a bang, and pushed it over. Last of all, he threw himself headlong on the path with a great...