Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fingerlike slope-apart from the rest of the battalion and in the very midst of the enemy. Finally taking refuge on a narrow ledge, the isolated platoon fired at the khaki-clad North Vietnamese attackers from as close as five to ten feet. Sergeant Clyde Savage stood up to blast down three of them, found to his horror that his automatic rifle was empty. "I didn't know what to do," he recalls, "so I just said 'Hi' and smiled. All three of them stood looking at me, sort of confused. Then they began fumbling...
...situation with the trustees who had bankrolled his dream. "We would have preferred to see Ric go on the friendliest of terms," said one trustee, "probably with a big civic dinner and all flags flying." But Brown, who still rankled at his short tenure, could not resist a farewell blast: "Individual board members have forced decisions and taken unilateral action not consistent with good museum administration." Not so, replied Ed Carter, president of the board of trustees and head of California's Broadway-Hale stores. "The board's decision to request Brown's resignation was based primarily...
Unhappily-and here's the twist-milord's lust for battle counts as nothing compared to the lust inspired in him by a winsome peasant girl, Rosemary Forsyth. He needs her, he explains, as he needs bread, sunshine, fire in winter. Honor. Well, blast honor. He claims the lass on the very day of her marriage to a husky serf, invoking the ancient droit du seigneur whereby a nobleman may claim ''the right of the first night" with any bride in his domain. The local priest (Maurice Evans) fusses a bit, suggesting that he choose another...
Frederick E. Gale, a cold temperature physics technician, received a silver medal and $1000 from the Pittsburgh organization for rescuing several co-workers from the blast. Kenneth M. George, also a technician, was awarded a bronze medal and $550 for his help in saving one man and searching for others...
...M.I.T. research technician was killed and six other men hospitalized as a result of the million dollar catastrophic Gale, and George, who were not injured by the blast, are now helping to rebuild...