Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greenwood, Miss., has been roiling with tension and violence ever since last summer, when Negro students from out of town moved in to get a voter-registration drive going. A fire has gutted the students' headquarters, one Negro has been wounded by a gun blast, 27 have been arrested, and one has been bitten by a police dog. Every day clusters of Negroes march toward the courthouse to register, and every day the police methodically disperse them...
...paucity of facts in Moscow lends a certain credibility to every rumor about the Kremlin, especially when it concerns the supposed ups and downs of Nikita Khrushchev.* Thus it was last week that a whisper from Moscow via Rome became a blast of hot air felt around the world...
...first batch of missiles, a few 230-mile El-Zafir (Victory) types, and the 370-mile El-Kahir (Conqueror). Although their reliability is none too certain, the military leaders of nearby Israel have nervously noted Nasser's claims that Egypt's birds will have the range to blast important targets "just south of Beirut"-that is, in Israel itself...
Shyest of all intellectuals in the Soviet Union was Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, usually the most outspoken of the lot. Evtushenko had been singled out* by Khrushchev for a scathing attack because of the poet's popularity in the West. After the Premier's blast, he went into seclusion with his wife in a dacha south of Moscow, and last week let word circulate that he had indefinitely "postponed" long-scheduled trips to Italy...
...small businessmen who had neither the money nor the volume to afford bigger, four-wheeled trucks. Toyo Kogyo switched to making rifles and airplane parts in World War II, escaped serious damage from Hiroshima's Abomb, which fell only three miles from its plant, because of freakish blast waves. The firm was too small to attract the attention of U.S. trustbusters at war's end, and quickly resumed production...