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Word: blast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Facing another embarrassment in an already embarrassing season, the Harvard baseball team came from behind to blast lowly Penn 8 to 4 in an EIBL game Saturday at Splinter Stadium...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Baseball Team Blasts Weak Penn, 8-4 | 5/3/1965 | See Source »

...most decided advantage for the Quakers will be the home courts, which are hard and fast. The Harvard players on the whole play a slow-court game relying on steady ground strokes to win. The Penn players, however, are the boom-boom type with blasing serves and blast tactics: just the style for hard courts...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Netmen Battle Penn Today | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...result, four California youths set fire to an acre of the Angeles National Forest with a blast from a German-made, 20-mm. antitank gun that they had bought from a Culver City firm for $150. And last September, the FBI seized four Russian-army Tokarev semi-automatic rifles that had been shipped to members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Battle of the Guns | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...bottom of the seventh, however, McCarthy began to show signs of weakness. He retired leadoff batter Jim Tobin, out only after Tobin had missed an extra base hit when a long blast was carried into foul territory by the wind. O'Donnell walked, and speedster Bobby Leo came...

Author: By Andrew Beyer, | Title: Sagging Crimson. Nine Loses to Terriers, 1-0 | 4/15/1965 | See Source »

...clerk at the embassy, was killed in the doorway of the building when the bomb exploded. Three Saigon policemen were blown to bits. In all, 22 persons, most of them innocent Vietnamese pedestrians, were killed, and 190 were hurt. The motor-scooter driver had raced out of the blast area, was shot twice and arrested by pursuing police. He claimed he was a hired helper, that he had been paid $139 by the Viet Cong to offer getaway transportation for the bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Outrages like This | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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