Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY. Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey was offended by realistic theater, and in this blast at what he felt was wrong with Ireland, he turned his antic imagination loose. The players of the APA Repertory Company make it a rollicking, rumbustious piece of theater...
...still another moon-landing technique: the lunar-orbit rendezvous. Houbolt's plan was to leave the mother craft in orbit around the moon while a light, ferrylike craft descended from it to the lunar surface carrying only one or two of the astronauts. Later, the little craft could blast off, rendezvous and dock with the mother ship, and then be left behind in lunar orbit as the astronauts returned to earth...
After reportedly telling a guard to "be sure to aim for my head," Bunch, who had been examined by an Army psychiatrist, deliberately walked away from a work detail. He was killed by a single shotgun blast that ripped his skull. That night, when the other prisoners vocally protested the shooting, Captain Robert S. Lament, 25, disciplinary officer, told them that they were in danger of committing mutiny...
...absurd, today's theatergoers are less likely than the audiences of the '50s to balk at the play's zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic p's and g's. The very talented players of the APA Repertory Company make this blast at what O'Casey felt was wrong with Ireland into a rollicking, rambunctious piece of theater...
...protect U.S. cities from Red Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles. Incoming warheads would be intercepted by Spartan missiles outside the earth's atmosphere. If any got through, back-up Sprint missiles would be launched to catch them seconds before they reached their target. The Pentagon contends that the resulting blast would be negligible, but radioactive fallout would be a danger. Critics argue that the Chinese will still not be a serious threat in the 1970s and that the $5 billion Sentinel network is the first step toward a $50 billion "heavy" system designed to protect the U.S. against a Soviet...