Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blast pressure, transmitted through 150 feet of almost incompressible water, crushed the coral on the lagoon floor, turning the color of the water from slate-blue to turquoise...
...survived the blast might have had only a few days to live because of radiation disease. Best evidence: a goat on the bull's-eye Nevada, which looked healthy enough when the ship was first boarded, died within two days when its white-corpuscle count went down to zero...
...smokestacks, even of battleships, crumpled like paper. The blast passing down the cruiser Pensacola's stacks blew open the boilers' fire doors-which would have brought death by suffocation to all the fireroom crews...
Hiroshimans flocked to a makeshift horse racecourse reconverted from an army drill ground, and into 17 movie houses (four more than before pika-don). The current feature was one of Japan's first postwar movies called Blast of Love. And for the children, there was a new toy, The Peace Game, priced cheaply at seven...
...interview" with Bombardier Harold H. Wood, the man who dropped the bomb. ("It was like dropping a cherry on a frosted cake.") And to make it authentic, the reporter added a personal detail: "I was thrown against a bulkhead and my typewriter knocked off the table by the jarring blast...