Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wimbledon last week, she started off as if she wanted to blast little Miss Moffitt clean off the center court. With her devastating serve and sizzling ground shots, she clipped off the first set, giving up only one game. But then everything came apart. With a series of three neatly placed "chalk" shots-two backhands and a forehand-Billie Jean broke Margaret's service in the second set, went on to win it 6-3. In the final set, the angry Aussie star built up a 4-1 lead, then 5-2. But Billie Jean refused to quit, fought...
...NDEA vote slipped into the past, the University turned its attention to another problem of widespread concern -- should it built a bomb shelter? There were two basic areas of controversy: first what sort of fall-out or blast shelter facilities were economically and technically feasible; second, and more important in the minds of many, what would be the effect on the nation if Harvard, an institution supposedly in close tough with the White House, should suddenly announce plans for atomic war? President Pusey appointed a committee to study the problem; the evenutal decision was to build no new facilities...
...build another one, and it will probably be in Panama. Of all possible new routes (see map), the two most favored are in eastern Panama above the Colombian border. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, which has studied the border area, thinks that it would be just the place to blast out a canal with a string of nuclear charges. The cost would come to just $1,250,000,000 compared with nearly $3 billion by conventional methods. When and if the nuclear canal is dug, Panama will be certain to have its full say in how things...
After exploring the nearby parts of the moon as thoroughly as their oxygen, supplies and equipment permit, the crew of the bug will blast off and rendezvous with the spaceship orbiting above them. After joining the two spacecraft and making everything shipshape, the reunited crew will boost themselves out of orbit and take off for the earth. The bug may be taken back to earth or abandoned on the lunar orbit...
...hear." coaxes the manufacturer, the Futura Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis. "Aim it at a group of friends a block away, and hear every word. " Also marketed by the friendly Futura people: the Big Voice ($12), a portable public-address system weighing only a pound, and the Big Blast ($10), a portable bullhorn "ideal for playground, spectator sports, boating, or just plain everyday...