Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explosion. A huge hole opened in the bus's floor while glass and splinters flew like bullets. At almost the same time, another bomb exploded in front of the Five Oceans Hotel, where more Americans were waiting to go to work. That afternoon there was still a third blast in the library of the U.S. Information Service. In all, 13 Americans and three Asians were wounded...
...orbit, but moving in the opposite direction. The warhead would burst and fill the orbit with millions of small particles. Any one of these, hitting the satellite with twice its orbital speed (36,000 m.p.h.) would have the effect of a meteor, punching a hole and sending a blast of flame and shock into its interior...
...Hints have reached the outside that younger Moscow artists are painting clandestinely in the manner of Cezanne; some are even reported to be secretly painting abstractions. If so, no samples were shown at the current exhibition. Instead, there were conscientious sketches of oil derricks, streaking red jets, power lines, blast furnaces, and a young Soviet woman standing fast with a lantern by a railroad switch...
This appeared to be an indication of what lies behind the Soviet party chief's repeated charges that Turkey, under American prodding, is about to attack leftist Syria. The Soviet Union has launched an all-out propaganda campaign clearly designed to blast American influence out of the Middle East...
Northern liberal groups who continually blast and denounce the entire South, he said, tend to cause great resentment among all Southerners...