Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tossed lines. The town band, percussive and perspiring, panted with bravura through the Merry Widow Waltz, Pomp & Circumstance, and struck up the great invocation: Rule, Britannia! Through the mist in some watchers' eyes the colossal Cunarder wavered moltenly. Even Colonel Blimp blew his nose with a Tory blast prolonged by the boom of the great ship's sirens, which are pitched two octaves below middle A and audible ten miles across the downs. On decks and dock, the handkerchiefs fluttered, bon voyage bouquets were waved. The farewells grew fainter across the widening water...
...safety. State mine inspectors had checked and okayed it on May 29. The night of July 23, the large, 37-year-old mine had as usual been rock-dusted to localize possible gas explosions. But the next afternoon, while a full shift of 264 miners worked underground, a crushing blast shook one of No. 8's 500-ft.-deep galleries. Near the source of the explosion, 27 miners died, five were injured. The cause: "Ignition of methane...
...laws had been complied with. John L. Lewis, interrupting a visit to his mother in Springfield, Ill., was greeted at Old Ben's tipple by his younger brother, 54-year-old, publicity-shy Howard Lewis.* Underground superintendent for No. 8, Howard had luckily not been below when the blast occurred...
Audience Participation. In Lebanon, Ky., arrested for playing his radio at full blast nightly from midnight to 5 a.m., Norman Ramsey explained to the judge that that particular program was so good that he felt the whole neighborhood should listen...
House arrest all over Palestine for 90,000 Jews was in effect yesterday, as a mine blast in Halfa that killed one and wounded seven persons touched off a third consecutive night of violence in the Holy Land. The explosion occurred shortly after it was announced that 4,500 illegal Jowish immigrants, intercepted on the vessel President Warfield, were being returned to France. French sources had not decided last night whether to let the unwilling immigrants land, and were negotiating with the British...