Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event on television this week, if all goes as planned, is the Gemini-Titan 4 space shot scheduled to blast off from Cape Kennedy Thursday at 9 a.m °All three networks plan extensive coverage of the launch (which NBC will broadcast in live color), frequent reports from the space craft during the 63-orbit, four-day flight, a generous assortment of specials and summaries and even an attempt to have a pool reporter with audio gear aboard one of the recovery helicopters. Elsewhere...
...nose has been bleeding off and on ever since. But last week he was batting .379-the second highest average in the American League-and 18 of his 36 hits have gone for extra bases. Tiger teammates now chant, "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, blast off!" every time he comes to bat, and Horton has responded by clouting nine home runs-seven of them tape-measure blasts that traveled at least...
...master of novices at Japan's Jesuit novitiate six miles outside Hiroshima. At 8:15 a.m. novitiate windows were shattered by a violent blast. Soon after, refugees began streaming from the city, and Father Arrupe made some sort of history by organizing one of the first medical supply teams ever to aid an atom-bombed city. In 1954, he was named Jesuit vice provincial for Japan, and four years later, after Japan was elevated to a full Jesuit province, became provincial...
...with at least 20 kilotons or, roughly, the same amount of destructive power carried by the Hiroshima bomb*-but it would be days before an analysis of its slowly spreading fallout would tell if the Chinese had advanced the state of their nuclear art. In any event, the blast was hardly a surprise-or a new reason for fear. Said Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin: "I do not see a direct threat of nuclear...
...road. Down the street went the marines, most of them green, all of them scared, grimly clutching M14 rifles, M60 machine guns and 3.5-in. bazookas. Now the firing grew in intensity, and rebel bullets whined past the U.S. troops. Near the U.S. embassy, two marines caught the full blast from a hidden machine-gun nest in an unfinished building a short distance away. Nine more were wounded before bazooka men came up to blast the nest to shreds...