Word: blasted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first explosion came at dawn. The sleepy-eyed citizens of Bolzano, a quiet, German-speaking town in Italy's Alpine province of South Tyrol, trembled wonderingly out of bed and into the streets. At the second blast, an eerie bluish light flashed over the mountains as a high-tension tower toppled and its 220,000-volt cables short-circuited. For two hours the bombs continued to go off around Bolzano. The stunned Tyroleans slowly realized what had happened. Germanic extremists, who had long been agitating for more local autonomy, had declared private war on the Italian state...
...Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck tries to recover his angry young manner with a blast at the affluent society. Unfortunately, the book contains more pose than passion, and the moral anathema sounds curiously like late-middle-aged petulance...
...prevent that, the Soviets made what seemed to be a few concessions. They agreed to sign a treaty banning all easily detectable blasts in the atmosphere, in space, in the sea, and underground tests of more than 19 kilotons-about the size of the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. In return for that, they demanded that both sides declare a "voluntary" ban on smaller, underground nuclear explosions, which are virtually undetectable without inspection. Meanwhile, said the Soviets, they would heed a U.S. call to work jointly toward better detection methods. To the U.S., the Soviet carrot looked tasty. Russia seemed...
...come to nothing-or maybe worse than nothing. The Soviets have stalled all attempts to improve blast-detection devices. Whenever the U.S. offered a concession on inspection, the U.S.S.R upped the ante. For example, the U.S. had originally held out for a 27-month moratorium on "small blasts," while the Soviets demanded a halt of four or five years; when the U.S. proposed a compromise of three years, the U.S.S.R. decided to insist upon an "indefinite" moratorium. Again, the U.S. originally wanted 20 on-site inspections a year in Russia, while the Soviets would tolerate only three. A couple...
...spring tornado season swirled into full blast on the Great Plains last week, such ominous warnings crackled constantly on TV and radio. And it was the proud boast of Meteorologist Donald C. House, head of the Weather Bureau's Severe Local Storm Center at Kansas City, that 55% of the bulletins were right on the button. Another 30% were near misses. Residents of "Tornado Alley" (the south central U.S.) were seldom surprised by unexpected twisters...