Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strategic Air Command's manned bombers. Backing up SAC's bombers will be a growing force of missiles, but SAC alone will provide an abundance of what the Pentagon calls "overkill." The H-bombs carried by a single B-52 bomber add up to 20 megatons of blast power-the equivalent of 1,000 A-bombs of the size that leveled Hiroshima-and SAC has 400 B-52s. During the next three years SAC will add 300 more B-52s (armed with 500-mile Hound Dog air-to-ground missiles as well as H-bombs), plus about...
...because the railroad, under the press of crowds leaving Seoul for the Lunar New Year celebrations, had sold 2,300 more tickets than the 18-coach train could carry. At that moment on Track 3 underneath the waiting room, the engineer of the Mokpo train blew a long whistle blast to signal switch crews to add more coaches...
...static-tested with their flames shooting downward, which requires massive, well-anchored test stands to resist the upward thrust. Their liquid fuel and oxidizer call for pumps, tanks, valves and tubing. Instruments watch every part of their twisted intestinal tract and report to a thick-walled blockhouse protected from blast and flame. A long countdown is required to make sure that every small detail is in working order...
Shortly after Cardinal Ottaviani's blast, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano was out with a condemnation of all groups and movements which have supported Marxism, thereby raising some troubling questions for Christian Socialist and Social Democratic parties. "Even socialism opposed to Communism," declared L'Osservatore, "cannot be reconciled with the profession of Catholicism. Nobody can be a good Catholic and a true Socialist at the same time...
...writer could bungle May 10-11, 1941 completely, and Collier has pages of stirring authenticity. His sense of small drama is sure: pretty Marguerita Stahli, buried alive for 15 long minutes, fearful only that her fiance might have died during the blast (he did); the curiosity of the men in Fighter Command Operations Room as they plot the erratic flight up the North Sea coast of a lone Messerschmitt bearing Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess on his mad "peace mission" to King George VI. Such touches have the gritty reality...