Word: blast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those a year ago. Nearly every gas-transmission company has curtailed deliveries to utilities, and utilities in turn have cut off service to factories. Plant closings, often for only a day or two at a time, have idled 400,000 workers by White House estimate, and the blizzardy blast of arctic air at week's end threatened many more layoffs-at least 300,000 in New Jersey alone. General Motors, U.S. Steel and other large companies kept many operations going by switching from natural gas to oil or coal, but all over the Midwest huge quantities of those fuels...
...rapped Czechoslovakia for not living up to the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreement. Specifically, State took the Czechs to task for harassing many of some 300 Czechoslovak intellectuals who had signed a petition called Charter 77 demanding various domestic reforms. Next day, there was another State blast on human rights, this time aimed at the Soviet Union and concerning its leading resident dissident, Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize...
...press briefing, a newsman asked a State spokesman whether Washington had any position on Sakharov, who has been subjected to a threat of arrest and possible trial. The cause: Sakharov's charge that the Soviet secret police may have touched off a blast in a Moscow subway so as to have an excuse to crack down on dissidents. The following day the department released a statement not only defending Sakharov as "an outspoken champion of human rights" but also warning Moscow that any attempt to "intimidate" him "will conflict with accepted international standards of human rights...
...impersonation in the beginning of Magnum Force, Harry shoots three hold-up men who are holding four customers hostage in a liquor store. The excitement comes when he takes them by surprise, delivering their requested getaway car through the front of the store at high speed, and taking a blast from a double-barrel 12-gauge through the windshield on the way. After this subtle entrance, he miraculously picks off the bad guys in the time it would take you to say ".44 magnum" three times, while leaving the innocents unscathed...
...Others blast lectures as an essentially inefficient use of the time, for everyone involved. A lecturer could reach a lot more people if he published or broadcasted his thoughts. Or consider the listeners: you can't very well go to the middle third of a lecture, the part you're interested in, or read a newspaper during the boring parts. But you can skim a book, read a chapter, or even just read the table of contents. So the argument goes...