Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tydings and Arkansas' J. William Fulbright at pitching horseshoes. The Missouri southpaw's side lost, 20-to-21. A seaplane brought official papers for the President. He sat under a poplar tree, read them, signed some. Then he went inside. There was a poker game in full blast and three tables of continuous bridge...
Just before U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden emplaned for Washington and his new job as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America, he let off a final blast at Strong Man Peron: "The voice of liberty is making itself heard in this country and I am not of the belief that anyone will be able to smother it." The crowd of Argentines at the airport cheered, shouted "Libertad! Libertad...
...yard, a mob of 1,000 men, women & children had a truck filled with rotten vegetables ready. The Witnesses were pelted. Those who resisted were beaten. Finally the crowd set up two fire sirens 25 feet from where Witness J. R. Dufour was lecturing, turned them on full blast and drowned him out. Fifteen Witnesses were arrested (for distributing circulars without a license...
...biggest blast came from the five million men in uniform. Most of them had voted Labor, all of them expected to go home as fast as possible after V-J day. The headlines made their pulses race: "Millions of Orders Pour Into Britain," "Britain Enters Great Enterprise of Peace." There would be good jobs and good...
...until scientists now on the spot have finished their tests. But all three atomic explosions, said General Groves, were "comparable" in power. Important difference was that New Mexico's test bomb went off only 100 ft. above ground, those in Japan "much higher." Hence the effects of their blast, heat and radiation were spread much thinner, their radioactivity dissipated more completely in the atmosphere. The explosions in Japan, General Groves asserts, were timed for higher altitude both to increase the blast and to reduce residual radioactivity. Even in New Mexico, vegetation not destroyed by the blast remained healthy, showed...