Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, battering northwest into the Gulf of Mexico, Betsy hurtled full-blast into Louisiana and Mississippi. In the Delta lowlands, where Audrey in 1957 took 518 lives in one Louisiana parish, 250,000 refugees sought shelter in schools and churches. The Delta was even more seriously hurt than the Miami area. Overall, property damage was estimated at $500 million...
...danced in the streets at the rumor of Indian victories. As antiaircraft guns in Amritsar opened up on Pakistani planes, citizens cheered each white puff in the blue sky, shouting "Shoot him down! Kill him! Kill, kill, kill!" Workmen put up baffle walls in offices as protection against bomb blast, shopkeepers pasted strips of paper to window panes, husbands and fathers dug slit trenches outside their homes. As hospitals were hurriedly emptied to provide beds for expected wounded, Indians queued up to donate blood. The capital's mood was reflected by a businessman who said, "We've been kicked around...
...spider trap," the marines tossed in some grenades, and out popped four willing prisoners. Suddenly another burst of gunfire came from the hole. Big hole, the marines shrugged, tossing in more grenades. When the concealed V.C. responded with still another fusillade, a U.S. demolition squad provided a real blast, using dynamite this time. When the smoke cleared, the marines clambered down into the hole, discovered to their amazement a limestone cavern over six feet high and 250 feet long. It was littered with the bodies of 66 Viet Cong, all dead from the demolition charge-the largest single kill...
...freeways are about to be carved into the countryside-the sensation that Nature is being suffocated beneath spans of concrete. "In many parts of the country the building of a highway has about the same results upon vegetation and human structures as the passage of a tornado or the blast of an atom bomb," protests Critic Lewis Mumford, one of the foremost save-our-trees esthetes. In San Francisco, Folk Singer Malvina Reynolds became so angry with the California Highway Department that she wrote a song...
...endurance record fell as the clock at Mission Control ticked off 119 hr. 6 min. from liftoff. Sitting at his control panel, Kraft said just one word: "Zap!"-a Buck Rogers exclamation to describe the blast of space guns. Then he got on the line to Cooper: "How does it feel for the U.S. to be a world record holder, Gordo?" Replied the laconic spaceman: "At last...