Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike bowed respectfully before a Buddhist monk among the crowd of petitioners gathered on his veranda, in return got a blast of four bullets in his body. He clung to life long enough to utter a last request. "I appeal to all concerned to show compassion to this man and not to try and wreak vengeance on him," he said, and died...
...critic was Newton N. Minow, 35, new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and his audience was the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Washington. Accustomed to a mild FCC that never interfered with programing, the TV owners and operators were more deeply shaken by Minow's blast than they had been by the quiz scandals or anything else in TV history...
...more difficult to build, might be grounded too. But in San Francisco last week at a meeting of the American Ordnance Association, Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, gave a highly hopeful report on the atomic missile. The first one, he said, may be ready for blast...
Baby Step. But even with the hero out of sight, the voluntary hero-making mechanisms of the U.S. worked at full blast. A newly built school in Deerfield, Ill., was named for Shepard. A greeting card went on sale in Boston for admirers to send to the astronaut. Mayor Wagner of New York promised him the greatest ticker-tape welcome in New York's littered history. Mayor Poulson of Los Angeles immediately tried to outbid Wagner. A bar in Fort Wayne, Ind., treated its customers to champagne. Senators, judges, professors and generals burst into praise for Shepard. Said First...
From Japan to Britain, radios had reported the gathering tension at Canaveral, the blast-off and the brief, successful flight. Congratulatory messages poured in from the world's capitals. Few foreigners shared the cool scorn of the Parisian who growled: "The Americans are crazy, and the Russians are crazy, too." Nor did anyone west of the Iron Curtain echo Radio Prague, which called Shepard's flight "scientifically primitive." In Europe and the U.S. most space spectators agreed with Leonard J. Carter, secretary of the British Interplanetary Society: "The Americans had the right way of doing it. Unlike...