Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rosner and his 40 barracks buddies have it rough and may indeed go to Viet Nam. However, does his being in the Army mean that there should be no parties, no merrymaking, no New Year's Eve in the U.S. until Rosner returns? So Truman Capote had a blast. So what? Must we read the trite analogies about the Roman Empire and the U.S. every time somebody has a toot...
...parents. The result, as one authority puts it, is "a kind of hedonism of the moment." That hedonism was vibrantly evident last week on the beaches of Florida, where the vacationing young had arrived in force. While the sands thundered to the Big Beat of transistors at full blast, surfers leafed lightly over the waves, and girls in Bermuda-length "cutoffs" or gaudy minishifts strolled languidly down the strand. Mostly, they read: Hans Reichenbach's The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, giant Batman comics, In Cold Blood, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and a strategic paperback titled...
...back up," he recalled later, "and I knew right then it was probably a mine or plastique." The doctor's diagnosis was correct. An explosion ripped a two-foot hole through the front seat. Dan escaped with light shrapnel wounds in his legs, but the force of the blast killed two pedestrians near by and wounded three others...
...most trying and distressing one in a 40-year publishing career," added that if either Jackie or Senator Robert F. Kennedy had read the book, "the present situation might have been avoided." In Sun Valley, Idaho, a vacationing Bobby Kennedy paused on the ski slopes long enough to blast the publishers. "We didn't want to go through with a suit," he said, "and we spent a lot of time trying to avoid that. But they drove us to that point...
...military, chemical-biological warfare (CB warfare, for short) is too unpredictable. Military strategists cannot measure the exact range a virus will cover, the way they can for a fusion blast. Resistance to the disease would be unknown, and would vary with the victims. The problems of delivering the dose, which would have to be in the form of an aerosol cloud, are technically difficult, Meselson suggests. "Even if it could be improved in the remote future," he says, military control "would suffer along...