Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through a hatch in the squat, black space capsule perched atop a Redstone rocket. Then he submitted to the time-consuming business of being strapped onto a contour couch, of being hooked up to myriad tubes and wires. At 6:10 a.m. E.S.T., the hatch was closed and sealed. Blast-off was still more than three hours away...
...second hero was Dave Larkin, who pitched well enough to win most games. He allowed but two hits and one run after Kilroy's blast in the third and hit a run-scoring double. He also gave up only two walks in pitching the full nine distance...
...apple. Valentina explained that the whole affair was news to her; she had not even known her husband was a major until she heard it on the radio. She had known, she said, that he was engaged in important work, but not that he was about to blast off into space. "He was afraid to upset me because I was an expectant mother...
...allowed to catch its breath only in the final moments, when Face miraculously stands triumphant after his final deceit. If Mirsky speeds the action and limits the number of actors who lasciviously roll their tongues around their lips and ostentatiously finger their crotches, the production may cohere. The resounding blast of broken wind which opens the show may lead to bigger and better things, instead of being the high point of the evening...
...broke smelting down into two processes, v. one in the blast furnace. The first, a horizontal, slowly rotating, gas-fired kiln, removes 55% of such impurities as oxygen and sulphur from ores of such low grade that blast furnaces cannot handle them, conditions them for the second step. This is a Udy-designed electric smelting furnace that finishes the job. The slag from the electric furnace can be put through a series of similar furnaces to draw off other metals such as chrome, copper, zinc and manganese. Thus, for the first time, a smeltery can work iron ore over with...