Word: blast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over the tall green pines of south eastern Alabama, singly and in forma tions of seven, the ungainly olive-drab helicopters swoop and buzz like dragonflies. Night and day they churn above the Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker. They blast the wire-grass country with rockets, machine-gun slugs and grenades. They execute intricate maneuvers high in the sky and inches off the ground, turning once-tranquil skies into some of the world's most congested airspace...
With darkness came the grim task of getting the U.S. dead and wounded out of a sky-clotting jungle roof 250 feet high, impossible for helicopters to penetrate. The Airborne called for a chain saw and some C-4 high explosive to cut and blast a landing zone the next day. Meanwhile the most seriously wounded were hoisted through the trees in wire baskets by rescue choppers hovering overhead. At first light next morning, seven more chain saws attacked the jungle, and at 10 a.m. the clearing was big enough for one MEDEVAC chopper at a time to flutter down...
Investigators believe that the jolt was so severe that the Agena engine shut down and enough pressure built up in the fuel and oxidizer tanks to rupture them. After that, the Agena either broke up or was destroyed in a fiery blast of fuel and oxidizer from the burst tanks...
...time for the biggest party of October in New York, the April in Paris Ball. The 1,400 jewel-hung society folks from all over the U.S. and nearly 100 from Paris jammed into the Waldorf's Grand Ballroom and adjoining suites for a nine-hour blast for four French and American charities. "A gay and brilliant assemblage," said the society reporters next morning. It was indeed. And at one point in the evening, a New York Times photographer snapped a picture of Socialite Stephen Sanford, Mrs. Rose Kennedy and the Duchess of Windsor that Velasquez would have been...
...about to give up too much of a lead in the space race. Last week President Johnson announced a hastily revised schedule that includes plans to double up on the next space mission, possibly in early December. Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell will blast off in Gemini 7 for their planned 14-day endurance flight; eight to ten days later, Schirra and Stafford will go up in Gemini 6, rendezvous with Gemini 7 (but not dock), and then orbit the earth in formation. For all the difficulties involved in the mission, the major problems will be on the ground...