Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alexis St. Martin, a French-Canadian voyageur, took a shotgun blast in the abdomen at Fort Mackinac in 1822, but his life was saved by Army Surgeon William Beaumont. A small opening in St. Martin's abdominal wall and stomach remained, and through it, over many years, Beaumont made hundreds of observations on stomach functions...
...hooked off the tree of the other. The gas then shot out of the wells so fast that the flames were pushed 90 ft. above the platform, giving it a chance to cool. This week, Kinley plans to drop explosives into the wells, snuff out the fires with the blast...
...bomb's magnitude. The TNT blockbuster of World War II, they reported, weighed about eleven tons, and could destroy a square city block. The old-fashioned atomic bombs (i.e., uranium and plutonium) are measured in "kilo-tons," or thousands of tons of TNT; the Hiroshima blast rated 20 kilotons. The H-bomb, by comparison, is measured by the "megaton"-a million tons...
Columnists Stewart and Joseph Alsop said last week: "Such a bomb would severely blast an area of 140 square miles, and moderately to severely blast an area of 260 square miles . . . The fireball...
...Fairless' explanation of why a blast furnace is always known as a lady [TIME, Dec. 22] blast furnaces, engines, planes and almost all complicated mechanisms are referred to as "she" for two additional reasons-it takes more than one man to manage them, and those who get to know them come to love them...