Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choices are difficult and narrowing fast. Just 17 months ago, President Kennedy had a real chance to blast Castro out of power; but at the crucial moment of the U.S.-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy called off the promised U.S. air cover. Today Castro's Cuba, propped up by Soviet economic and military support, is far more dangerous than it was then. The time is gone when it might be possible for Cuban exiles, no matter how much U.S. support they might get, to reclaim their homeland. And unless Castro launches an open, large-scale military attack against...
...spacecraft's electronic nervous sys tem took over and issued commands of its own, starting a one-hour warmup period. It turned off instruments and turned on guidance gyros. It swung the directional radio antenna aside to get it out of the blast of the mid-course rocket motor. At the end of the warmup, Mariner II was ready for the crucial maneuver of its long voyage. Replaying the commands from earth, it rolled 9.33 degrees and pitched its nose around for 139.83 degrees. This turned its mid-course rocket motor forward, putting it in position to slightly reduce...
Indonesia's tactics brought a blast from the International Amateur Athletic Federation, which canceled its sanction, costing the games their international status. The I.A.A.F. warned that any athletes who took part in them might lose the right to compete in the 1964 Olympics. Because an Indian official had backed the Israeli protests, Indonesian commerce officials were instructed not to enter into any new trade agreements with India...
...women bent double under sacks of flour, visitors with gifts for relatives on the mainland. By mid-morning 200 travelers had crossed the frontier, and one of them was carrying a lethal parcel. Then, as the line shuffled through Red China's wooden customs shed, a powerful blast splintered the building, killed an inspector and a woman traveler, injured 27 others...
Before the U.S. exploded a nuclear bomb high over the Pacific early this summer, famed Physicist James Van Allen predicted that the blast would create a globe-girdling belt of dangerous radiation. Last week data from orbiting Injun I satellite proved him correct. The new belt is 200 to 500 miles high, just a little closer to earth than the permanent belt named after Discoverer Van Allen. But its intensity is waning, and by the end of a year it will be almost undetectable...