Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue Book blast at Perón had apparently had little effect on the voting. Argentines, resentful of previous advice from abroad, did not welcome the latest installment with vivas. But neither did they let Perón use it as a red herring. The chief issue remained Perón's fitness to be President...
...Shock & Blast. Next came the shock wave, essentially a sound wave and moving with the speed of sound. Close on its heels came a shattering blast of air displaced by The Bomb's expanding gases. The shock wave claimed its victims by squeezing their bodies, compressing their internal organs, puncturing their lungs. When the vacuum which followed it reached them, the gas in their stomachs and intestines expanded explosively, rupturing the tissues. Then came the blast, at 500 to 1,000 miles per hour, sweeping them over the ground, along with the churned-up rubble and blazing wood...
Light buildings were houses of cards for the heat and blast; they were burned up or swept away. Most factories collapsed completely. At Nagasaki, the heavy-brick Roman Catholic Church fell into rubble...
Such optimism, said members of the mission, was not justified. On the inside, the surviving buildings were empty shells. Even when the fire had not burned them out, the blast had punched through the doors and windows, churning the interiors into hopeless ruin. Example: from a distance, the Nagasaki Medical School looked almost untouched; inside, it was a wreck...
Would its tough Argentine policy be a success? The U.S. would get a quick answer at this Sunday's election. If democratic candidate José P. Tamborini won, so had the U.S. If totalitarian Perón were elected President, it would take more than words to blast him out of Argentina's Casa Rosada...