Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tons of steel, 2,700,000 tons of concrete, and hundreds of miles of electrical ganglia. In Montana alone, 150 Minuteman silos will be dispersed over a 20,000-sq.-mi area, nearly twice the size of Maryland. They have been designed to withstand any nuclear blast short of a direct hit on their steel and concrete doors. From generators to toilets, everything that goes into an underground complex is shockproof or shock-mounted on rubber. The floors and walls of each complex do not join; instead, they are linked with a foot-wide rubber collar that absorbs shock...
...thousands of East and West Berliners gathered to gape and to jeer at the scowling Communist troops gripping submachine guns and standing shoulder to shoulder beside a solid phalanx of armored cars. When the crowd moved too close, there was the jab of a Communist bayonet or a sudden blast from the powerful Wasserkanonen (water cannons), the wheeled squirters of the East Berlin riot squad that can topple...
...Blast shelters can be built for only a fraction of what it would cost to put a man on the moon, and I for one would certainly rather have my money go toward the preservation of this planet before exploration of another...
Conservatism. For the first time in N.M.A. history, a conservative leadership under outgoing President James T. Aldrich of St. Louis invited the A.M.A.'s president to address the convention. Dr. Leonard W. Larson (TIME cover, July 7) obliged and delivered a blast against the King-Anderson bill. Dr. Aldrich joined in opposing the bill, on the grounds that it would be compulsory, and in any case would "fail to provide health care for 5,000,000 aged citizens who are not covered by social security." Those not covered include a disproportionate number of Negroes, because so many have been...
...used to carry fishing rods). On a downtown Dallas street recently, pedestrians arched their brows at an open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy of a local radio station. "Grab a hunk of sky," mouths Marshal Matt Dillon from the TV screen. "Ghur sao chiu tin" rasps radio's Cantonese cowpoke...