Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building all through the siege of Madrid. When the Loyalists announced that they were going to blow up the building before evacuating the city, Behn calmly informed them that he and his staff, including 6 U.S. citizens, would be meeting in the building at the time set for the blast. Rather than antagonize the U.S., the Loyalists spared the building. Last year, Behn disposed of the company to the Franco Government for $88.1 million in Spanish Government bonds and cash...
Last week, the Navy told about the animals' ordeal. At Test Able (the air-burst bomb), there were 3,030 white rats, 176 goats and 146 pigs on 22 target vessels. Some were near the blast center, some far off. Some were sheltered, some exposed. About 10% died at once of air blast; 10% more had died, chiefly of radiation sickness, by late August. The same number, many presumably injured were killed for examination...
...Test Baker (the underwater bomb) the score was higher. Two hundred white rats and 20 pigs were confined in the sick bays of four ships near the bomb. All were well sheltered, and none of their ships was sunk. But 77 rats were dead soon after the blast. Forty-nine died later of lingering radiation sickness. Of the 20 little pigs that went to Test Baker, no little pig came home. Six were found dead when their shelters were entered four days after the explosion. All the rest died in two weeks...
...charge and sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that, it was just like any of Airman Lambert's previous 58 jumps...
...night of Izvestia's blast, Radio Moscow-which must not have read its daily paper very thoroughly-put on another half-hour of Eddy Rozner's band. Included in the program: a hepped-up version of the Volga Boat Song, a swing finale full of cracks at Russian grand opera...