Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CANTON, MISS. A shotgun blast struck five Negroes as they left a voter-registration meeting. None were seriously hurt. A white service station attendant was charged with the shooting...
Distribution Problem. Their dispute grew so angry last week that Moscow resorted to expelling Chinese diplomats, a treatment hitherto reserved for Western representatives. Behind this latest explosion was a 24,000-word Peking blast at Khrushchev's policies, designed to show that his peaceful coexistence line is a cowardly betrayal of true Red revolutionaries, that he is shilly-shallying with the "paper tigers" of imperialism, and that he is "subverting" other Communist parties. When the Russians refused to publish the Peking letter, issued two weeks ago, the Chinese embassy in Moscow started circulating copies, thereby provoking the Kremlin...
...leftist students, disgruntled workers, professional saboteurs and gunmen-may number less than 400, though Venezuelan far left parties claim 60,000 members. Hardly a day goes by without an irritating reminder of the F.A.L.N.'s existence. Last week a main gas pipeline into Caracas went up in a blast of flame; a major bridge on the highway 25 miles east of the capital was destroyed by dynamite; and four soldiers were killed in an F.A.L.N. ambush in the eastern mountains. So it has gone for more than a year-a government freighter hijacked, banks robbed, policemen murdered, hotels bombed...
...jabbing with electric cattle prods, some 50 Alabama state troopers drove more than 300 Negro demonstrators from the lawn of Etowah County Courthouse. The Negroes had gathered to protest the arrest of 396 demonstrators during a freedom march on segregated downtown stores the day before. Later a shotgun blast slammed into a state patrol car as it cruised a Negro section of the city. The troopers inside were not injured...
Some time in 1964 three U.S. astronauts will wriggle into a bell-shaped Apollo capsule, strap themselves into contour couches and await the blast-off into a challenging two-week adventure. Through the capsule's windows, they will see the flash and smoke of blastoff, then the approaching clouds, the indigo sky, and finally the star-speckled blackness of outer space. Later, as they view the looming surface of the moon, they will begin another countdown to launch a smaller detachable capsule for a lunar landing. Before the astronauts see earth again, their skill and nerves will be severely...