Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crack U.S. division leaned against a supporting beam, took off his helmet, ran his fingers through matted grey-blond hair. "If we can get through the enemy," he said, "it will be a long, slow job and it will cost us plenty. We'll have to burn and blast him out with flamethrowers and demolition grenades. And we'll need a lot more here than we've got now. In this war it's too late for any lightning offensives...
Atop a flag-decked stand at Canneau one day last week, President Paul Magloire cocked his aluminum safety helmet at a rakish angle and pushed a plunger to explode 50 lbs. of dynamite, the first blast in the construction of Haiti's $21 million Little TVA in the Artibonite Valley (TIME, Jan. 12).* A small boy in the crowd of 2,000, expecting something downright atomic, heard the muffled whoom and muttered, "Pas bon [no good...
...TYCOON ON PAT'S V LIST bannered the Boston Record. The Atlanta Constitution headlined its story: SOBBING CALL GIRL WEEPS OVER NAMES OF LOVE BUYERS. Punned the New York Mirror: SILENT SINERAMA IN SEX DIMENSIONS. Actually, the list of names she mentioned in court was a scattershot blast, as newsmen got it. They were unable to tell which were "clients" and which were mere "acquaintances" of Pat's. Such names as Screen Stars Mickey Rooney and George Raft, Disk Jockey Jack Eigen and Sportwriter Bill Stern were splashed across papers indiscriminately. Some of those mentioned denied that they...
...called the "indispensable man" of the oil industry, owes his highly profitable trade to an accidental discovery. His father made his living "shooting" oil wells (i.e., dynamiting them to loosen the oil-bearing formations). One day in 1913, when a well caught fire he discovered that a dynamite blast could snuff it out. Myron and his younger brother Floyd concentrated on oil-well fire fighting. In 1931, when Myron went to Rumania to put out a fire which had raged for two years, his fame became international...
...some machinery and broken, Kinley got it set in a cast, went back to direct the fire fighting from horseback. In Venezuela, when shifting winds blew the fire on to him, he spent five weeks on his stomach in a hospital recuperating. In Texas, in 1938, he saw a blast of well gas kill his brother Floyd. But the dangerous game held a lure that Myron could not resist...