Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians are testing in the Arctic. Would it be possible for a series of these explosions to melt enough ice to cause an appreciable rise in the sea level? "No. Nuclear explosions are hot--during a blast this size the earth is receiving more energy from them than it is from the sun. But they are much too short to melt a dangerous amount of ice. There is more total energy, from start to finish, in a good-sized hurricane than in a nuclear explosion...
...Blast Wave, also referred to as the shock wave, is the wall of pressure generated by a nuclear explosion. It speeds outward from the explosion point at 2,000 m.p.h., slows as the distance increases...
Overpressure is the number of pounds per square inch (p.s.i.) above normal atmospheric pressure exerted by the blast wave of a nuclear explosion. An overpressure exceeding 20 p.s.i. can be fatal to a human being...
Back home in Maine, Senator Smith, a childless widow, shrugged off the blast, suggested, "Mr. Khrushchev is angry because American officials have grown more firm since my speech." But Laborite Shinwell was sorry that the U.S. took so little heed of Moscow's noise, commented, "Although Khrushchev makes a slashing attack on Americans in his letter, he emphasizes that he wants peace. I am convinced he means it if we will play ball with...
...three women got out and gingerly followed their scout past the long, noisy bar into the back room. Through the low-level light, furred over by cigarette smoke, they could make out a few guitar-slapping, foot-waggling singers, all yelling unintelligible words against the driving, torrential blast of rock 'n' roll music. On the dance floor, a tight tangle of people shuddered and shook through a series of hip-tossing, pelvis-thrusting, arm-swinging gyrations that go by the name of "The Twist...