Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister Nehru deplores the trend toward "giganticism" in modern industrial society, but when it comes to his own economy, he flatly says: "We must think in terms of large schemes." This week two of his large schemes made news as the first blast furnaces of two vast new steel mills were formally commissioned...
Then came two goals in dazzling succession. A heads-down play at his own blue line by Mo Balboni led to a goal by third line wing Don O'Neill on a fifteen foot blast at 8:14. To prove that they were only getting started the Eagles charged in again after the face-off, and Pratt found himself standing face to face with second line center John Cusack, the latter with a puck on his stick. The goalie somehow made the initial save, but B.C. again grabbed the puck and this time Cusack scored, on a rebound from...
Dominicans Blast Batista...
...Shortly after midnight the lights in the village flickered out. At the tavern, irritated cardplayers lit candles, went on with their game. Suddenly, a distant, muffled roar was heard. To woodcutters in the mountains, it sounded like a "great stampede." To one villager, the noise resembled "a continuous dynamite blast." Father Placido went worriedly into the street, as did the electrician and some of the men from the tavern...
...annual riot of trading and boozing at the fur company store on Mackinac Island on a June afternoon in 1822, a gun went off accidentally and blasted a gaping hole in the belly of Alexis St. Martin, ig, a French Canadian voyageur. For the rest of his days he had a hole in his abdominal wall leading directly into his stomach. The blast that let the daylight into St. Martin's stomach enabled U.S. Army Surgeon William Beaumont, in years of experiments, to shed the first light on the mysteries of human digestion...