Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First blood went to center forward Cormack O'Malley, who capitalized on a well-placed kick by sophomore halfback Rob Knapp to blast a goal less than three minutes after the kick-off. Spectators settied back in expectation of a score in two digits, but after this opening effort, the Crimson forward line ran into a solid wall of Tufts defenders. Depleting their own attack forces to cover every Harvard player, the Jumbos managed to prevent another score in the first period...
Great chunks of stone shot like artillery shells through parked cars. The blast shattered the windshield of a passing car, knocked the driver unconscious. A metal railing, torn from its concrete bed, lanced across the street into the window of the Social Dry Cleaning store. Next door, customers at the Silver Springs Restaurant were knocked to the floor. In nearby Kelly Ingram Park, pieces of brick nipped the leaves off trees 200 ft. from the blast...
...tank thumped onto the scene and cops began firing shotguns over the heads of the crowd while Negroes pelted them with rocks. Later, Negro youths began stoning passing white cars. The police ordered them to stop. One boy, Johnny Robinson, 16, ran, and a cop killed him with a blast of buckshot. That made five dead and 17 injured in the bomb blast...
...blade steel is typical of Sweden, which has become a steel power even though its output-3,600,000 tons last year-is barely 1% of the world total. The Cartier of steel, Sweden has a reputation for quality that keeps its steelmakers expanding and operating at full blast, while U.S. and European mills are short of orders in a ruthlessly competitive market...
Once he made his discovery, Dr. Pruitt began a loud vocal opposition to the AEC's Project Chariot, which was a plan to use nuclear explosives to blast a spacious harbor in the Alaskan coast. The side effects, he said, would harm the Eskimos even more. Although he was fired from the university, he continued to make all the noise he could about the danger of feeding more fallout into the Eskimo food chain. The AEC's present management now watches the Eskimos carefully and measures their body burden as it creeps ever higher...