Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meters through the air-in order to protect the grenadier from their fragments. A multishot M-79 is currently being tested in Viet Nam, and to solve the problem of close-in fire fights grenadiers are now issued 40-mm. "cannister" rounds whose heavy loads of Double-O buckshot blast out of the barrel as if from a sawed-off shotgun, cutting down everything within a 20-ft. radius. "If you used it on skeet," says one veteran, "you'd take down the skeet tower...
Washington's annual International Ball this year had almost none of the normal rites of a blast for charity-no drawings, no door prizes, no speeches. Just dancing and plenty of it. All of which was fine by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, 58, who cheered: "This is one of the nicest I've been to." Alas, Fowler felt constrained to sit out the frugs and watusis. Remember those undignified pictures they took last February when he did a warm frug at a party with Carol Channing? "I'm just like Lindbergh," sighed Fowler. "Made one flight, became...
...breaks up old cars into tiny bits and magnetically extracts the steel to produce a 97%-pure scrap, offering a hope that most of the nation's automobile graveyards can eventually be eliminated. Fly ash is converted to make lightweight bricks, panels and construction blocks. Celotex is using blast-furnace slag to make mineral wool...
Dipping to within 112 miles of the moon at its perilune, or closest ap proach, and swinging out to 1,145 miles at its apilune, or farthermost distance, Orbiter will remain "parked" in high or bit until late this week. Another blast of its retrorocket will then place it in an orbit that will come within 28 miles of the moon. Only then will its cameras go into action to shoot medium-and high-resolution landing site pictures...
Like the last Anderson play, Treason at West Point, Prince Erie is vaguely historical. Probably that is the only point of comparison. Treason, produced at the Loeb two years ago, met with a blast of hostile critical wind. Some people even speculated that the Loeb administration, learning a quick lesson from Treason's fate, would avoid producing this year's Anderson play...