Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire crosses the hall to suites on the west side of the building and encounters a blast of air, presumably from open windows in 603. A hot air explosion rekindles the fire, spreading it rapidly to other suites...
...Congress had also set records for the bookkeepers. In all, the 89th spent $119.3 billion-a total unprecedented in peacetime and one that will require decades to pay off; interest on this year's national debt alone came to $11 billion. With its oratorical blast, the session had filled more than 33,250 pages of the Congressional Record, another record, which cost the taxpayers only some...
...dumped the horse manure at Paddy Kennedy's pub? The Maharani of Cooch Behar did, with the help of a truck. "I couldn't resist," explained the maharani, former Model Gina Egan, because it was her old friend Paddy's birthday and he was throwing a blast for himself at his pub, The Star, in London's Belgravia Mews. "Paddy has always backed my racehorse Mack the Knife, and he's been complaining that he's always lost," the maharani went on, "so I decided to send him a birthday present from Mack...
...found supplies, such as enough rice in the Triangle to feed a V.C. regiment for four months. They also uncovered dirt-fresh evidences of the Communists' long-famed trenching arts: tunnels up to 40 feet deep and several hundred yards long, with angled corridors and galleries to reduce blast effects, air vents and emergency exits...
...furnaces and finishing mills. Jones & Laughlin will erect a ground-up $600 million plant at Hennepin, 111. (TIME, July 9). Bethlehem is spending $400 million on a 3,300-acre complex of finishing mills at Burns Harbor, Ind. Youngstown Sheet & Tube is laying out $375 million for a blast furnace and finishing mills at East Chicago, and Midwest Steel, a division of National Steel, has opened a new $115 million plant...