Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one morning last week, Hibok-Hibok got angry again. This time it gave no warning. With a quaking blast it heaved its sulphurous stomach, tossed red-hot boulders bigger than a man across the northeastern portion of Camiguin, sent up clouds of red-hot ash and deadly chlorine. A torrent of glowing molten lava rolled in all directions. Three and a half miles away in Mambajao (pop. 21,000), the island's capital and largest village, children on the way to school, women washing clothes, men on the way to their fields were buried in the rush...
...universities . . . And unless it recognizes and meets this obligation, I do not believe it is properly protecting the long-range interests of its stockholders, its employees, and its customers . . . If it is necessary for us to spend millions of dollars to beneficiate the ore which goes into our blast furnaces . . . then why is it not equally our business to develop and improve the quality of the greatest natural resource of all-the human mind...
Individuals v. Policy. Judge Streit's blast brought some blunt and immediate answers. "It isn't any of the judge's business in the first place," yelped S.M.U. Athletic Director Matty Bell, "and in the second place, these scholarships cover all sports, not just football." Maryland President Dr. Harry ("Curley") Byrd, an old footballer, frankly admitted the presence of 60 out-of-staters on undefeated Maryland's huge, 97-man football squad. "What of it?" Byrd growled. Basketball Coach Clair Bee, now acting president of Long Island University and a particular target of Judge Streit...
Under the full impact of this blast, Justice Kenneth O'Brien awarded her $1,000 for lawyer's fees and a $125 weekly temporary alimony. Doraine crossed her legs prettily for the photographers and, with a confident smile, went off to await the trial she had thoughtfully requested...
...Pope's speech to midwives on the Roman Catholic code of morality in matters of sex and childbirth (TIME, Nov. 12) contained nothing essentially new. But one statement in it set off a blast of Protestant indignation in England. The sentence: "To save the mother's life is a very noble aim, but the direct killing of the baby as a means to that end is not lawful...