Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ustinov's blast from the pages of Pravda sounded the shrillest note in a Soviet propaganda campaign that has gathered unusual force. The objective: to head off the deployment in Western Europe of nuclear missiles aimed, for the first time, at the Soviet Union itself. The rest of the controlled Soviet press pulled out all the stops in cautioning about the dangers of a new arms race. Uniformed generals made rare personal appearances on television, to talk about "the peace policy of the Communist Party." Soviet officials in Moscow, unusually attentive to Western journalists, argued that the missile build...
...blast raises a mystery...
...Antarctica. Officials disclosed that sensing devices on a U.S. satellite had detected the explosion. What the sensors ''saw'' was a flash of light, which dimmed for a microsecond, then became brighter. It was interpreted to be the tell-tale signature of a two-kiloton nuclear blast...
...enough for the nationalistic Gush Emunim, which fanned out over the West Bank and set up 35 to 40 squatters' settlements in protest. Israeli troops evicted them and tore down their tents. But the Cabinet's move to expand the seven settlements brought a stinging blast from Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil...
...planned to blast the first mile, and then reconnoiter at the two mile and form a pack." John Murphy said. Murph bombed through the first--after jumping the starting gun--recording the fastest split of the year at 4:35. The only problem came when he turned around after the mile to look for his teammates and saw Dartmouth's no. 103 not far behind...