Word: blasting
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...that Sunday afternoon, as if caught on the billows of the church blast, Virgil Ware and Larry Joe Sims were hurtling toward another racial tragedy. Succumbing to peer pressure, Sims had gone along with friends to a segregationist rally that day--and now he was holding a revolver that his classmate, Michael Lee Farley, 16, had handed him as they rode home on Farley's red motorbike, its small Confederate flag whipping in the wind. As they passed Virgil and his brother James, 16, Farley told Sims to fire the gun and "scare 'em." Sims closed his eyes and pulled...
...thing actually works. In contrast to the Mercury program, which was tested more than a dozen times before Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961, China's Shenzhou has flown on only four occasions. The reason for China's rush may be a political imperative to blast off on-or near-the Oct. 1 National Day. A successful flight will likely stoke the country's growing patriotic fervor. The celebrations could rival those that accompanied Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 1997 or China's selection two years ago to host the 2008 Summer Olympics...
...knows exactly when the historic launch will take place. China's secretive space commissars haven't divulged such tiny details as the blast-off date?it could be Oct. 1, China's National Day, or sometime in mid-October. Nor have they confirmed the number of astronauts on the mission, although it's likely to be no more than one or two. But with Russia's space program sputtering for lack of funds and America's paralyzed by an emotional debate in the wake of Columbia's disintegration, China's program looks set to become the world's most ambitious...
...space program, and its $2 billion-$3 billion annual budget, is the People's Liberation Army. Its Second Artillery Corps, which also controls China's nuclear arsenal, oversees the program. Its scientists are expected to translate aspects of the manned space program for military use. Rockets big enough to blast a life-support system to the moon, for instance, will also be able to throw heavier military satellites into orbit. And the increased maneuverability of rockets and satellites could someday help Chinese missiles penetrate America's planned national missile-defense system. Indeed, the Pentagon warned in a report to Congress...
...dramatic second-half goals by junior forward Tiffany Egnaczyk—one on a penalty stroke, the other an unassisted blast with less than two minutes remaining—put the Crimson down by one in the closing moments, spurring hopes of a comeback...