Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doctor. Last week's rainwashed World Series ended with a genuine bang, but as series go, it had more than its share of fizzles. "I don't have a damn thing to say about anything," snarled Yankee Mickey Mantle, who tried so hard to blast the ball into the bleachers that he rarely got it out of the infield, wound up pounding the ground in frustration over his .120 batting average. "I'm gonna go see a doctor," confided San Francisco's weary Willie Mays, who drove in 121 runs during the regular season, only...
...Saturday there was a House quorum, and the surly Representatives voted down Cannon's money-saving motions. That brought a furious floor blast from Cannon against the whole political atmosphere on the Hill. "Gentlemen," he roared, "justice is for barter and sale to the highest bidder. No one thinks about principle any more. They are ready to sell justice!" Then he proceeded to astonish his colleagues with direct, personal attacks on the leaders of his own party in the House, wound up with a withering slap at Speaker John McCormack. "I have sat under ten Speakers," roared Cannon...
...Hotel Tamanaco, the favorite Venezuelan hotel for well-heeled U.S. tourists and businessmen. Minutes after she left, a thunderous explosion blew out the powder-room walls, shattered glass in the lobby, wrecked the interior of the cocktail lounge and injured five persons. Timed to coincide with the Tamanaco blast, a hail of fire from machine guns and mortars poured into an army motor pool on the other side of town. Troops returned the fire, and for two hours many of the expectant mothers in a nearby maternity hospital cowered beneath their beds as bullets ricocheted through the building. A bystander...
...Mariner II will pass plenty close enough to Venus to get a good look. Even at 40,000 miles, its radar and other scientific instruments will be effective if they work properly. Meanwhile, its en route instruments are measuring the solar wind, the great blast of electrically charged particles that the sun shoots out in all directions. At present the wind is rather gentle, but it can rise to hurricane force when a brilliant flare erupts on the sun's surface...
...evidence of foreign steelmakers' increasing competitiveness: a new world record for iron production was set last month by a blast furnace of Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd., which turned out 92,680 tons v. the previous record of 92,124 tons, set by a Bethlehem Steel Corp. furnace last...