Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the committee's threats to charge him with contempt of Congress for repetitive refusals to answer questions, Goldfine fired off a final blast against the "smear," chuckled at Counsel Robert Lishman's joking request: "Please leave me off your gift lists." "You can return it if you want," explained Goldfine, "and if you do, it will be the first time anyone did." After a final handshake with Chairman Harris, a final visit with Adams, Goldfine, surrounded by lawyers and press-agents, flew back to Boston...
This ear-catcher, signaled by a blast of steam, is The Music Man's curtain-raiser, an invitation for the audience to visit River City, and an underscoring of Director Da Costa's feeling that "the job of the theater is not to feed pessimism but to dispel...
Before recommending the blast, the AECmen intend to study the rock under the coastline. Some kinds of rock absorb more neutrons than others and become more radioactive. The hardness of the rock is important too, because it controls to some extent the amount of nuclear energy that must be used to produce the desired effect...
...diameter. If a charge is exploded 40 ft. down instead of on the surface, the diameter of its crater is nearly doubled. All these figures are for soil, not for resistant rock, but it looks as if a single megaton charge and two or three 100-kiloton charges could blast a harbor big enough for almost any purpose. The residual radioactivity, the AECmen hope, will die down to tolerable levels in a month...
...Daily and Hsinhua (also known as the New China News Agency) are directly responsible to the party's propaganda department. Editor Wu gives his readers their three cents' worth of tract and polemic. Major party decisions are announced in customarily unsigned editorials, e.g., last month's blast at "deviationist" Yugoslavia. On occasion, People's Daily even carries punditry under the most imposing bylines in the nation: Premier Chou En-lai and Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...