Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same without the late Elsa Maxwell, who founded the annual charity ball in New York 13 years ago, and just to be a little different, ended up scheduling it for October. But 1,300 Manhattan socialites, who paid $150 a ticket, made it the kind of blast Elsa would have liked. The theme was Une Nuit sur la Côte d'Azur, in honor of the old girl's favorite playground, and Cannes' Whisky à GoGo discothèque was faithfully reproduced while French-born Decorations Chairwoman Jeanine Levitt looked like an ondine from the Riviera...
...long. In Moscow, a new B. & K. diarchy is in power, but unless Brezhnev and Kosygin manage to work in tandem more effectively than Bulganin and Khrushchev did, an internal power struggle may grip Russia and becloud efforts for an East-West detente. Peking's atomic blast may make it more difficult than ever for the U.S. to keep nations along the periphery of Red China from falling under its influence. In Latin America, Johnson must take up the unfinished business of Fidel Castro, not to mention such trouble spots as Bolivia...
Njoku's first came four minutes later as he brought the ball into the center from the left wing, paused momentarily to set up his left foot, and unloaded a blast from thirty feet that slammed into the arms of Penn goalie Pete Humberg and spun him into...
These injuries should enable Dartmouth to key on Yale's star fullback Chuck Mercein, and should help blast big holes open in the Eli defense...
When Red China crashed the nuclear club, its A-bomb test blast echoed through all the world's capitals. And it roused once again the specter of a dead and devastated world. Scientists and laymen alike have long feared that the aftermath of a nuclear attack would be a desolation of blasted, baked and radioactive wasteland. What life survived the initial holocaust, it was agreed, would surely succumb to the longer-lasting hazards of atomic radiation. So far, the best proving grounds for such theories are Bikini and Eniwetok, the two Pacific atolls that were clobbered by some...