Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon started things with a real blast. In a chilling rain at Palatka, he touched off a 150-lb. dynamite charge to break ground for the 107-mile, $158 million Cross-Florida Barge Canal. Afterward, he stopped off in Palm Beach for a 20-minute visit with Joseph P. Kennedy, ailing father of the late President. Then he headed for Miami Beach...
...armory raiders were no ordinary thugs but members of a terrorist organization called the Quebec Liberation Army, operating in the French-speaking province. Its aim is to blast Quebec free from the rest of English-speaking Canada and set up an independent nation. In the past year the terrorists have dynamited army installations, planted time bombs in mailboxes, and now they are stealing guns. Total haul so far: 92 rifles, 30 submachine guns, three antitank bazookas, four field mortars, 17,200 rounds of ammunition...
Russo, long expected to be a strong candidate for chairman this year, has announced that he will not seek any office. His decision is probably based on his dissatisfaction with the Council over the past year and on a blast levelled at him at a meeting he could not attend earlier this year by R. Thomas Saymour '64, outgoing chairman...
...president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks ago, his Skeeter hit a hidden "pressure heave" in the ice. One runner snapped off and flew back-and that accounts for the 15 stitches in Perrigo's face...
...thus reducing costs by up to $8 per ton. J. & L. also saves money by using computers to handle everything from customers' orders to inventory control. It operates the most highly mechanized coal mine in the U.S. near Pittsburgh, led the way in sintering iron ore to make blast furnaces more productive...