Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavily armed plainclothesmen from the Cook County State's Attorney's office raided a dingy West Side Chicago apartment, looking for a cache of illegal guns. Possessing a search warrant, the officers said that they forced open a barricaded door and were greeted by a shotgun blast. They returned the fire, setting off a furious ten-minute shoot-out with the apartment's occupants...
...Swiss town of Winterthur, where three terrorists went on trial last week for the machine-gunning of an El Al jet in Zurich last February, an Arab spokesman warned darkly that the Athens blast and the Swiss trial were "all connected." The Arab terrorists seemed totally uninterested in defending themselves. Backed by a claque of Arab lawyer-spectators from Algeria, Jordan, Libya and Egypt, the three denounced their court-appointed Swiss attorney and refused to answer all questions...
...homeless in the punitive actions, their decision to adopt the practice brought condemnation from the United Nations General Assembly's Social Committee. A resolution urging the Israelis to desist was passed 51 to 11, with fifty countries abstaining, among them the U.S., Britain and France. In a vicious blast, the Soviets likened the Israelis to Nazi Germany...
Yale bounced back with a 69-yard bomb from Purrington to Dick Jauron, but, the Yardlings' potent rushing attack soon put the game on ice, Fullback Ted DeMars capped a 65-yard drive, all on the ground, with a two-yard blast midway through the last quarter. John Kidwell's point after made the score...
Since July, when the first blast rocked a United Fruit Co. pier on the Hudson River, there have been eight dynamitings. Before each explosion, the bombers called guards in the targeted buildings, warning them to clear the area, and also informed the news media. Though no deaths resulted, there was one near miss. In August, a blast in a Broadway trust company injured 17 people. Some might have been killed, but all were partially shielded by a two-ton computer, which was moved two feet by the detonation of 24 dynamite sticks...