Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ability to detect hostile missiles at the start of their flights will be an important advantage in the uneasy world of the future when each major nation has the power to blast its enemies by long-range rocketry. When the missiles plunge down through the atmosphere, they can be detected for only a few last minutes of flight, and this leaves little time for counteraction. But if a satellite sees them blasting off deep in enemy territory, the home team has a better chance to hit them with counter-missiles before they return to earth...
...Bouncing eagerly through the sedge grass. Just Rite Roz flushed her first covey 15 minutes after her handler, Druggist Bill Swift of Selma, Ala., let her go. Swift's whistled commands moved Roz through the course as though she were on a long leash-a series of short blasts sent her roaming, a long blast brought her back. Coolly, she ignored the occasional roar of a shotgun fired to test her poise. Going into a perfect point, taut and quivering, she deftly pinned down eight coveys. Once she pointed at an empty spot still warm with the scent...
...long ago conquered the problem of flight at supersonic speeds, but they are still wrestling with the jet-age problem of bailing out. Both the Navy and Air Force have been betting that as speeds rise, the pilot who bails out will have to be protected from the killing blast of the airstream by a detachable, parachute-fitted cockpit that can be blasted away from the crippled aircraft. But no aircraft now being made is designed to take a capsule cockpit...
Larry Sears turned in what was perhaps the most impressive performance of the afternoon at third singles. Playing with his injured ankle tightly taped. Sears casually felt his opponent out in the first game, winning it 17-16 after trailing 2-0 in the deuce. He then proceeded to blast the Yale man, Bill Barhite, off the court, 15-5, 15-3, in the next two games. Sears' smash service couldn't have worked better, completely fooling Barhite on almost every point...
...flavored by Hampton's recent tours of Israel ("I visited King David's tomb, and a chant just came to me"), the music tells in a plaintive harp opening of the Old Testament tribulations of the Jews, "blows down the Wailing Wall" in a mighty, jumping blast of brass, moves through a lively vibraphone dance to a deafening, full-orchestra crescendo of triumph...