Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goes Grivas. Makarios spent his week gently agreeing with every visitor from the U.N. commander, India's General Kodendera Thimayya, to U.S. Ambassador Taylor G. Belcher, and then going his own way. He seemed unperturbed by the blast from Athens, where Greece's Premier George Papandreou accused him of launching the drive against Kokkina in violation of a firm promise not to attack without Greek knowledge and consent. When the Greek army officer commanding Makarios' National Guard resigned for the same reason. Makarios simply appointed in his place General George Grivas, the tough old resistance fighter...
Ogier swung the ship to port. The torpedoes passed 100 yds. to starboard. For a farewell blast, the two boats sprayed away futilely with their 25-mm. machine guns, turned tail and headed toward the north...
...from coming in any longer." The words were prophetic, for last week the long expected Turkish intervention had begun. It was not the full-scale naval landing that some had feared; this still could come, but for now Turkey was sending its jet fighters across the narrow straits to blast limited Greek Cypriot targets...
Valuable as it was for its own discoveries, the flight of Ranger VII gave a tremendous boost to the entire U.S. space program. Gigantic rockets are already being built for manned exploration of the moon, but before a man dares to blast off, astronomers must learn the nature of the l And their biggest telescopes cannot tell them whether to expect fluffy dust or jagged rocks, smooth plains or pockmarked lava. Hampered by the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere, they can see nothing that is smaller than one mile across. Ranger VII's cameras, during their last...
Western Russia-and China-watchers are carefully studying the attack, and Berlin Kremlinologist Richard Lowenthal concludes that, far from being merely another anti-Russian blast, it is in effect "Mao Tse-tung's ideological testament." For the document warns that the same sort of wicked reversion to capitalism that is happening...