Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attackers burst in. A machine-gun round cut down an Iranian employee standing next to Kraus. The gunmen took the Marines' flak jackets, helmets, wallets, watches and shotguns. One attacker leveled a shotgun at Kraus. "I shuddered," he says. "I heard the blast," but that was all. Hit on his face and scalp, Kraus passed...
...musicians all over the boxes, balconies and aisles of the hall instead of clustering them solely onstage. Greater complexity and expressiveness are his aim. "It's easier on the nervous system to have the music spaced," he says, "because you don't get it in a compact blast-you get it fragmented from different sources...
From Bangkok to Bangor, investors are buying up gold−and paying record prices for it. Scarcely a week goes by without a fresh blast of bad news to push up the value of the mystic metal that thrives on crisis. Viet Nam's invasion of Cambodia, which began late in December, was one such event, but gold's biggest boost lately has been the winter-long turmoil in Iran. As investors have grown fearful of another energy crunch, the price has surged from under $200 per oz. in mid-autumn to a record $254 two weeks...
...Raiders jumped out to a frighteningly quick one-goal lead, as Murray DeCock's blast deflected off a Harvard defenseman and fluttered over freshman goalie Giff Duffy's shoulder at the 2:18 mark of the opening period...
...Crimson came out as lively as the dead fish that fans later tossed on the ice, allowing the Big Red to swarm around John Hynes and blast 23 shots in the first 20 minutes on the befuddled senior netminder...