Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Leap Forward, launched with such fanfare in 1958, was intended to bring quick success in 1) building a pure Communist state, and 2) making China over into a first-class world power. Instead, the Leap's frenzied mobilization of peasants into communes, the setting up of backyard blast furnaces, and the 24-hour-a-day speedup...
...sight. Peking is so bitter about Moscow's reneging on its 1957 agreement to help create a Red Chinese atom bomb that it has broadcast details of the Russian about-face. Chinese physicists are now believed to be two to three years away from detonating a nuclear blast, farther still from what the experts call a "significant capability." But work proceeds on the project, for Peking hopes that achievement of nuclear status, however primitive, will gain prestige among the underdeveloped millions on earth whose respect-and alliance-the Red Chinese...
...turning to grim criticisms. Fellin complained that he and Throne could have been saved in five days, not 14, if only the rescuers had gone properly about their business. In turn, Pennsylvania's Deputy Secretary of Mines Gordon Smith, who directed rescue operations around the clock, leveled a blast at Fellin. "The miners in this operation," said he, "were removing pillars of coal left all these years to support a worked-out mine. Fellin showed he doesn't know all there is to know about mining by getting himself in this predicament." These contentions made even more chilling...
...also considering ordering more high-flying U-2 aircraft for scooping radioactive debris out of the air, more acoustic and pressure-sensing devices for feeling the pressure waves of a nuclear blast, more sensitive radio devices for detecting a shift in radio signals caused by 10,000-mile-high blasts, more instruments for spotting fluorescence caused when X rays from a nuclear explosion in space excite nitrogen in the ionosphere...
...Blazing Shotgun. Two days later, a fire nearly destroyed the Lewises' small home, forced them to move to nearby Pomona. After they returned in May, they reported a series of thefts. Next, the Lewises insisted, they were plagued by a shotgun blast that tore into their house while they were eating; by carloads of white teen-agers who roared by, jeering "nigger lover"; by young white hoodlums accosting their six children, even to the point of shoving the youngest daughter, on her tricycle, down Castle Hill toward traffic...