Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From a super-secret missile test base at Tyuratam, near the Aral Sea, a Soviet SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile roars from its silo, hurtling its ten warheads 5,000 miles toward a target area in the western Pacific. The heat of the rocket's blast triggers infrared sensors aboard a U.S. spy satellite 22,000 miles above Tyuratam. Within seconds, other U.S. facilities are alerted and computer-run electronic equipment on land, planes and ships locks onto the SS-18, monitoring its flight and performance...
With Radcliffe settling into a new shell, working relatively new oars with more confidence and mastery than had been seen in the Dartmouth race, using a new, quick start to help counter the strong Eli opening blast and enjoying a bit of homecourse psychological advantage, the stage is set for an explosion at Weld...
...that is left is the final disco, held in the room where policies on hunger, energy and voter apathy were thrashed out. Red lights flash over a parquet dance floor. The room fills with the blast of a band from Washington. The name of the band is Survival...
Rice, who opened the Sox scoring with his blast in the third, also notched the first Boston hit of the season, knocking a Wise fastball into center field to bring the crowd to its feet. His screen job drove home Jerry Remy, who started the stanza with a single, and Fred Lynn, who got a pass from Wise to crown the bases...
...translation of human reliance into legal principles. But the officers of Bass and Marshall are little more than caricatures. Their eyeballs are forever bulging, and they communicate with associates chiefly by hissing. One partner fancies himself as a sea captain, and enters securities litigation with commands like "Blast them. Send them down in an instant with all hands on board." Cosmo Bass, the formidable autocrat who runs the firm, could have been another Kingsfield, the Paper Chase professor. Unfortunately, Weston never gets to do much more than eat lunch with the old boy and listen to him bombinate about what...