Word: blast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue and Red of Pennsylvania combined an awesome attack and a fine defense last night to blast the Harvard lacrosse team, 17-5, in the first three quarters and then cruise to a 19-11 Ivy League triumph...
...Moscow incidents, which recalled a similar wave of harassment in 1971, seemed to be provoked by some anti-Soviet attacks in New York City: a bullet fired at a Russian residence, a bomb blast outside the Aeroflot office and an unexploded bomb found last week in a building housing the Soviet trade organization Amtorg. Though the militantly anti-Soviet Jewish Defense League has been responsible for some earlier outrages against Soviet officials in the U.S., another group called the Jewish Armed Resistance claimed credit, if that is the word, for the Amtorg bomb. While the New York incidents were certainly...
...bomb exploded at the army headquarters in Buenos Aires, injuring 28 (including four colonels), killing a passing civilian truck driver, destroying a dozen vehicles, and even shattering windows more than 300 yards away in La Casa Rosada, the presidential palace. The left-wing Montonero guerrillas claimed responsibility for the blast, which seemed to signal an ugly change in their strategy: a new willingness to risk the maiming or killing of innocent civilians...
Cashin, smooth and experienced, seemed to blast each stroke effortlessly, all the while spinning the six-pound weight behind the ergometer furiously with each eruption of his legs and back. Brock, somewhat rougher in style but determined to beat Cashin, grimaced and hurled his weight in kind...
...pages to accommodate outside voices; broadcast equivalents are harder to find. The FCC encourages local stations to let viewers and listeners answer station editorials, but not news and documentary programs. In a Mobil ad that appeared opposite newspaper editorial pages the same day as the "hatchet job" blast, the company urged consideration of a "voluntary mechanism" for reply that would be "developed by the press [and] which would promote free and robust debate...