Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Industry is in even worse shape. In Anshan, which normally produces half of China's 12 million tons of steel a year, several blast furnaces are reported to have been destroyed by recent rioting. There have been consistent reports of trouble in coal mines and of shortages of coal, and a full-scale battle was reported in August at China's biggest oil center, at Teaching in Manchuria. "Demons and monsters," Peking's People's Daily stormed a few weeks ago, "deliberately incite one group of the working masses to oppose another and upset the order...
...fourth inning and Boston's scoring with a 360-foot homer run into the sixth row of the right field stands. The blast was a slightly straightened version of the long foul he socked in the first inning before settling for a walk...
...fans, Carl Yastrzemski supplied the only happy moments in the Boston homecoming. Yaz drove in all three Sox runs in the seventh inning with a towering blast over the flagpole in left-center. The homer was Yastrzemski's 43rd of the season--tieing Ted Williams' club record for a left-hander--and boosted Yastrzemski's league totals in HR's and RBI's in his bid for the American League Triple Crown. He also hit a double in three official at-bats to raise his season average...
...crater, Surveyor almost immediately began transmitting high-quality photographs of the surrounding landscape, including a shot of its own footpad covered by lunar soil kicked up by the landing. On orders from distant Pasadena, it again briefly fired its verniers while its cameras peered at the surface to observe blast effects...
...moment of all for the Aussies occurred in the third race when, midway through the opening, windward leg, a 12-ft. Beetle Cat boat piloted by two youths capsized directly in the path of the onrushing Intrepid. Mosbacher had to veer off sharply; in the process, Intrepid caught a blast of air from a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that wrapped her mainsail around the backstay, cost her more than 30 sec. of racing time. She still beat Dame Pattie to the first mark...