Word: blast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broadcast the attacks of their critics: to siphon off the kind of pent-up popular frustration which led to the Hungarian explosion; to put the fear of the counterrevolution into the lower levels of their own bureaucracy; even, in the case of General Lung's anti-Russian blast, to make a point which the government agrees with but cannot officially accept. But underscoring them all is one fact, ominous to Communists everywhere: Mao noted that in Hungary "the party simply disappeared in a matter of a few days," because it had no popular roots...
...They were a far cry from the worried souls who three years ago had called themselves "the poisoned people." Good news travels fast, and because of what the Navy and the AEC had done for their atoll, many a Rongelapese who left his home long before the H-bomb blast occurred had decided to return to it. Since island law provides that every member of a Rongelap family, whether living there or not, is entitled to a share of land, the Navy found itself returning a boatload of 275 Rongelapese to the atoll in place of the 82 it originally...
...where my dead lie buried." The figure has been outlined with paint (143 gallons), and is to stand in the round on the majestic scale of 563 ft. in height by 641 ft. in length. Standing Bear touched off the first charge of dynamite on June 3, 1948 (each blast removes about 200 tons of rock), and the sculpting has been going on ever since. So have arguments...
...professor of psychology and set up a counseling center in a drab, three-story house on Drexel Avenue, half a block west of the campus. To the center trooped clients (Rogers avoids the term "patient") of all ages, from all walks of life. It has been going full blast ever since...
...shirt-sleeved apéritif drinkers, and families lingered in the palm-shaded parks. At the Casino de la Corniche, perched on a cliff overlooking the blue Mediterranean, teenagers danced to the rhythms of Lucky Starways and his orchestra. In a nightmare of sudden sight and sound-a shattering blast, the music stopped in midflight, the thunder of a heavy explosion -the peaceful picture was erased. It was a time bomb under the orchestra platform. In a flash the tea danqe became a scene of death and destruction. And Algiers for days afterward a city of vengeful violence and riot...