Word: blast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheerest Flattery. Stevenson's blast certainly demonstrated one thing: Estes is on his mind. Most of last week Stevenson was busy paying Kefauver the sincerest form of flattery. Rolling into Jacksonville on a one-day drive to win friends and influence Florida's May 29 primary, Stevenson stopped off on Main Street, where he popped in and out of half a dozen stores, shaking hands and telling all comers, "I'm Adlai Stevenson, and I need your support." In Kefauver's underdog tone, Adlai solemnly assured newsmen that he faced "an uphill battle" in Florida. (When...
Telltale Waves. Radioactive dust tells nothing about the power of the shot, but Japanese bomb watchers have another trick that gives a fair indication. They measure the power of the atmospheric wave set in motion by the explosion. The wave from the U.S. blast at Bikini (2,485 miles from Tokyo) rated .4 millibars in Japan, while the Soviet explosion (1,802 miles from Tokyo) rated only .15 millibars. These figures cannot be taken as directly proportional to the power of the explosions (shock waves can act odd), but observers in Japan estimate the biggest U.S. bang at 12 megatons...
Walt Stahura swung and missed on the first pitch, and then leveled a drive just over the left field fence, 325 feet away. Terrier outfielder Len Dempsey jumped over the low picket fence, but couldn't get the blast...
...pressure air rushes into the tube, forming a shock wave whose temperature reaches 15,000° F.-1½ times the temperature of the sun's surface. It passes in a tiny fraction of a second, but while it is passing, it simulates the 18,000-m.p.h. air blast...
...wrestled BOAC, Britain's state-owned airline, out of its postwar tail spin stepped away from the controls last week with a blast at "irksome political interference." After turning a 1948 loss of $30 million into a 1954 profit of $4,000,000, Sir Miles Thomas, 59, quit as BOAC chairman and chief executive...