Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First they stopped an RCA recording crew and an NBC-TV team from taping a Black Sea blast in the resort of Sochi, then they banned the distribution of B.C. buttons, next they arrested a fan for fraternizing with foreigners ("We will be lucky if we see him again," mused a bystander), and finally they tried to bar Benny's ig-year-old daughter Rachel from going backstage, thinking she was one of the local cats. Said Good-Wilier Good man: "It shows a terrible weakness on their part, doesn't it?" Back from an eleven...
...Jazz Festival, a People-to-People program with the Duke serving as honorary host, that kept capital auditoriums rocking for four concert-filled days. The only thing that troubled Ellington, a jazz composer and performer for 40 years, was the use of the word jazz to describe all that blast. Said he: "'American music is a much more fitting term...
...angry Deputies of South Africa's dwindling opposition parties rose in Cape Town's Parliament to blast the government's new "death for sabotage" bill, which would give the regime sweeping authoritarian powers...
...about growth and the price-earnings ratio. From now on, says Bache's Gordon, "prices of stocks will not increase unless we can really see proof of growth in earnings." Only slightly less pessimistically, E. F. Hutton & Co. Partner Robert Stovall warns: "You don't heal a blast wound with a Band-Aid, and you don't convince people to put money back into the market right after they have sustained sizable losses...
...underground blast sets up only compression or "P" waves, with very little of the shear and surface ("S") waves that normally accompany a natural underground disturbance. As a result, the seismographs detect only what Leet terms "the lonesome P." an energetic compression wave which lacks the shear and surface waves that usualy follow...