Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Target. Spokesmen for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration carefully explained that for the first time in 60 Redstone firings, one of two disconnect plugs had pulled 20 milliseconds behind the other-thus setting up a circuit that cut off the rocket engine. The cutoff told the capsule to blast loose, but a clamp held it securely while the escape rocket blasted away...
Showing early-season lack of finesse, the varsity had trouble clearing the puck in the early stages but played rough hockey. After several near misses by both teams, Dave Morse, co-leader in points last year, knocked in the disc at Bob Anderson, leading the defensive corps, slaped a blast from the right point. The rebound off Chaffee went to the left where Bill Backet gave it a whack. The Bowdoin netminder kicked shot out too, but Morse was in close on the right and slammed the puck into the cage...
...Mild-mannered Republican Attorney General John Anderson Jr. campaigned through all but two of Kansas' 105 counties this year to blast away at the tight budgets and free-and-easy prison paroles of ailing (bronchial condition) Democratic Governor George Docking, trying for his third term. Anderson's round-the-clock plugging paid off: he ran behind Richard Nixon, but well enough to toss Docking, a conservative banker from Lawrence, out of office...
...again in a single speech, the Senator draws applause with an appeal "to help us those this country forward again." Its choice of adjectives--"strong," "vital," "energetic," "vigorous"--would have delighted Theodore Roose veldt. The Rough Rider has reappeared, pale and wan, as the new frontier man. His bugle blast has faded into an earnest call for "a society with purpose, a society with strength...
...overtime, a blast by O'Hiri hit the goal post and almost knocked it down, but it didn't go in. Williams, who was outstanding all afternoon, thwarted a final Andover foray and the game was over...