Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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North and South, the war continued last week to gather in intensity. The big decision was in the air. U.S. fighter-bombers hit gasoline and oil depots north of Hanoi twice, and it looked as if President Johnson at last was ready to blast the main fuel-storage areas outside Hanoi and Haiphong. U.S. commanders have long wanted to hit the vital "source" targets that enable North Viet Nam's trucks to feed supplies southward into the Ho Chi Minh trail. Until now, in Washington's judicious application of pressure on Hanoi, the petroleum dumps have been...
...that fathered Sir Francis Drake and Captain Kidd to make pirate radios into big business and a national British pastime to boot. From creaky ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit, impudent stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London blast out the siren songs of the Beatles, the Stones, Ella, Frankie, Dylan, Gardol and S. & H. Green Stamps to 17.5 million listeners a week, or one Briton in three. Not only is the sport good for advertising bullion; the pirate stations have also become a symbol of the rebellion against...
...automatic fire raged. Five of us dived for cover into one courtyard, the others into an adjoining one. Outside in the street, a tremendous explosion resounded-either an M-79 grenade or a 60-mm. mortar shell. Three of the other newsmen, peering out a door, were wounded by blast fragments. UPI photographer Steve Van Meter asked an old man in a nearby building for some mosquito netting to bandage our wounded. The man shook his head. We offered him 500 piastres. Still no. With that Van Meter brushed the man aside, took the netting. The firefight was over with...
...Crimson victory does not affect its standing in the Greater Boston League, and all Harvard could do on Saturday was watch Northeastern blast M.I.T. 14-0 to sew up the league championship. Both Harvard and the Huskies have lost only one game in league play, but North-eastern won the title on a better percentage, with eight wins to the Crimson's five...
Wilson's assassination prompted outraged demands for an investigation of the painters' international leadership. The outcry was redoubled this month when Lloyd Green, 45, a Wilson ally from the nearby Alameda County local, was killed by a shotgun blast hours after his men had rejected a dues increase ordered by Raftery's headquarters...