Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What caused the blast was an unexploded shell that had stood in the Rand dust outside the Stoltzes' door for half a century-since some unknown cannoneer had misfired or forgotten it in the far-off Boer War (1899-1902). To the long-memoried Afrikaners who back Prime Minister Daniel Malan, that war is still as explosive as the shell that killed Grannie Stoltz. Last week, at the polls, they went far towards reversing its verdict...
...situation is the same for humans as present evidence indicates a soldier irradiated from the blast of an atom bomb or artillery shall, or contaminated by the radioactive dust scattered by the blast, would panic or "freeze" in a fearful battle-ground situation...
...soon M.P.s were complaining about the stuffiness and the drafts. M.P.s in tweeds and woolen underwear objected that Britons are used to, and dress for, indoor temperatures of less than the 70° that satisfies most Americans. On the other hand, when the doors are opened wide, a chilly blast from adjoining rooms leaves the front benches shivering. Prime Minister Winston Churchill once got so cold that he flounced out of the House and came back in his overcoat...
When Joe McCarthy called a press conference at the end of the week, reporters fully expected to get a new McCarthy blast on an old subject, possibly the Bohlen fight. But they soon discovered that Joe had raised his sights, and was now busy running his own little Department of State...
...howitzer shells lobbed into Lewis. When the siege ended, nine houses, four barns and two business buildings were destroyed, 54 of the remaining 95 houses were damaged. Only two residents, both over 80, were hurt seriously enough to be hospitalized; no one was killed. When the blast came, almost everyone in Lewis was out of range, at an Eastern Star meeting in Masonic Hall...