Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satellite-frequency overcrowding worries radio astronomers. "You can't get away from a satellite," Moran said. "A satellite can blast a whole hemisphere and block frequencies essential to radio astronomy," he said. The search for signals of extraterrestrial life and the study of newly formed stars are areas particularly vulnerable to such interference, he said...
Woolway brought out all of the Columbia ineptitude with an outstanding goaline stand. After stopping a blast by running back Joe Ciulla at the two, he and tackle Tim Palmer racked up Conroy on a keeper. As icing, Woolway struck again on fourth down, batting away a pass into the end zone...
...Ciulla blast to the left ran into massive Bob Woolway, who returned on the next play to smother quarterback Bob Conroy at the one. On third down, adjuster John Casto sacked Conroy; and Woolway came back once more to deflect a fourth-down endzone-bound pass intended for no one in particular...
...game was a good one overall for Harvard, as the Crimson finished strong after a very weak start. When the game opened it looked like Harvard might be facing a depressing day. On Harvard's first possession, following a 4-yd. Connor's blast, St. John faded back to try his first pass as the starting varsity quarterback. He completed the toss, thrown with precision into the waiting arms of Columbia's Mike Brown, who returned the ball to the Harvard...
...vehicle convoy of British soldiers moved along a highway just inside the Ulster border. On the one side was Narrow Water, a peaceful estuary of Carlingford Lough; on the other a golf course. When the convoy passed a trailerload of hay parked beside the road, a huge bomb exploded, blasting a three-ton army truck across the highway and spewing wreckage and human bodies into the air. Surviving paratroopers radioed for help, and a contingent of the Queen's Own Highlanders, including its commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel David Blair, 40, arrived by helicopter. Moments later a second blast went...