Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside Washington, the movement was back to normal. There were parties: in Chicago, the Anti-Superstition Society held its customary Friday the 13th blast. There were crimes: young Sinatra's kidnaping got the biggest headlines, but more in the spirit of the season were the two gunmen who came into the Alpine State Bank in Rockford, III., in Santa Claus costumes, locked the employees in a vault and made off with $36,000. Finally, there was Christmas acoming; in Boston, live reindeer pranced on the Common, not far from a creche with a sign that was a symbol...
...floodlights, the Reds knifed a sentry, forded a three-foot-deep moat, snipped three barbed-wire fences, and slipped into the compound-evidently in collusion with a spy inside, who unlocked the gate. Then, while guerrillas outside opened up with a mortar barrage, the infiltrators attacked to the blast of a bugle...
...President gave Dallas' afternoon paper, the Times Herald, a big advantage over the Dallas Morning News - and the Times Herald was ready to put that advantage to good use. The copy deadline had been pushed up 45 minutes, to 1:15. JFK INVADES CONSERVATIVE DALLAS LEVELS BLAST AT RIGHTIST CRITICS, read the prepared headlines. Advance stories were already in type, one on the security measures surrounding the visit, another on the visit itself, lacking only a few lead paragraphs. At Dallas' police station, alert for any unexpected excitement, Times Herald Reporter George Carter sat by the police radio...
Rare Events. The experiment will generate no atomic blast, but if it pays off it may have an explosive impact on the new and booming subscience of neutrino physics. Neutrinos are littleknown particles that have no mass of their own and no electric charge. They have nothing much except energy; they interact hardly at all with known kinds of matter. They are generated copiously in the centers of stars, and they move with the speed of light as they slip out into space and pass right through any stars they happen to hit. It has been calculated that a stream...
Even this seems futile. Language is the greatest smuggling operation in the world. When the French blast juke-box as an American atrocity, for example, they might better blame West Africans for the original Bambara word, dzugu (wicked), which evolved into joog (disorderly) in the Gullah language of sea-island Negroes living off Georgia and South Carolina. It is virtually impossible to keep a language "pure." Mustafa Kemal tried it in Turkey, failed for the simple reason that half the Turkish language is borrowed from Arabic and Persian. Mussolini purged Italian of such "foreign" French (but Latin-derived) words...