Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listen! In TIME Letters [Dec. 22] are the following people: a farmer who resents not being allowed to go on relief like his city cousins; a blast at sonic booms; a "misunderstood" college student who smokes pot, drinks, and makes out on dates because her parents committed the unforgivable sin of loving, "not listening"; and another college student lamenting the state of the world...
...Miami, Ariz., was rescued by choppers, but his pet monkey was found frozen to death, hanging by its tail from a tree. Other Navajos like Lily Crookedfinger, 90, and the Tsosie brothers were less fortunate: they died of exposure in the high country. Sheepherder Joe Shaggy, 25, weathered the blast though several of his woolies froze to death...
...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945 by Harold Macmillan. 623 pages. Harper...
Detonated 4,240 ft. below the surface, the 26-kiloton nuclear device was the key tool of Project Gasbuggy, a venture financed by the Atomic Energy Commission and the El Paso Natural Gas Co. and designed to increase natural-gas output. The blast was intended to shatter a large portion of the 285-ft.-thick layer of gas-bearing sandstone lying beneath the Leandro Canyon, thus releasing gas that is tightly locked within the rock. 35-Story Cavity. Ordinarily, gas is obtained simply by drilling a well into a formation of gas-bearing rock. Natural underground pressures then force...
...hand, should have produced such extensive shattering and cracking, according to AEC experts, that as much as 70% of the gas i in the surrounding rock should flow into the well over a 20-year period, cotnpared with only 10% that would be recovered by hydraulic fracturing or nitroglycerin blasting. Within a minute after the searing blast formed a 160-ft.-diameter cavity in the earth, they calculate, the roof of the cavity should Save begun to collapse (TIME, Nov. 3), eventually forming a chimney of fractured rock as tall as a 35-story building. In addition, cracks should have...