Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like him a onetime drug addict), never made any bones about his ruthlessness in war, except for the standard excuse of "military necessity." He was proud of having ordered the bombing of helpless Warsaw and of surrendered Rotterdam. He was "very happy" for the opportunity to try to blast Coventry...
Decline & Fall. Italy, in the belated spring of 1947, looked deceptively like a country in happy convalescence. From the Po down to Palermo, fields were green and fertile, and the people were hard at work. In the northern cities, many factories were going full blast and foreign visitors marveled (as they had before) at the patched-up trains, running on time. Fruits, vegetables and meat choked city markets...
What had caused the blast? The Coast Guard would say nothing, except that seamen, who had not been warned of the danger of nitrate cargoes (see SCIENCE), had been smoking on board the Grandcamp...
Flame & Invisible Force. The next minutes were a vortex of sound, flame and rushing, invisible force. The bodies of the dock crowd, limbs and clothes torn off by the blast, were strewn for half a block. In the ruins of the Monsanto plant, buildings sagged slowly down on 800 workers. In adjacent refineries, gasoline and oil tanks shot up like rockets, walls fell, pipes curled up and writhed like snakes, and black and red fire licked greedily over the ground...
Ammonium nitrate, whose blast wrecked Texas City last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is all too easy to make. The recipe: add ammonia to dilute nitric acid...