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Word: blasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly a shotgun muzzle was thrust through the front living room window; the crash of falling glass was drowned out by a double blast. A spray of lead pellets the size of peas ripped Vic Reuther's head and right shoulder-his shattered eyeglasses and his dental bridge flew to the rug ten feet away. Slowly he rose, clutched his bleeding face, then fell to the floor crying, "Call an ambulance." Sophie Reuther called police, then rushed screaming into the dark, empty street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Detroit almost to the last detail. Thirteen months before, an assassin had fired a shotgun through a kitchen window in the home of Vic's elder brother Walter, and shot down the cocky, redheaded president of U.A.W. Walter Reuther's right arm is still crippled from the blast that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...banzai-Long live His Majesty, the Emperor!" he yelled. "Banzai!" echoed the crowd in a booming roar. "Banzai!" the masses outside took up the cheer. "Banzai!" they cried, shaking their paper flags as the maroon Packard drove past the thin white pillar that notes the center of the atom blast. It looked as if defeat and a confused postwar world were transforming the Emperor of Japan into the Emperor of the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Broom | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...vanes gave so much trouble that the Viking's designers (Glenn L. Martin Co. and Reaction Motors) eliminated them entirely. The Viking's gas blast is deflected for steering purposes by tilting the whole combustion chamber from side to side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: V-2's Rival | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...liquid oxygen) in a single combustion chamber. Chief improvement is in the control mechanism. When a big rocket first takes off, the air is not moving past its fins fast enough to provide steering control. The Germans got around this difficulty by putting small, movable graphite vanes in the blast of hot gas from the combustion chamber. By deflecting the gas stream slightly when the rocket wobbled, the vanes kept it upright until it was moving fast enough for the outside fins to take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: V-2's Rival | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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