Word: blasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well did Hussein's blast suit the capital's changing mood that when Jordanian crowds took to the streets last week to celebrate the agreement ending Jordan's long alliance with Britain, they shouted praise for Hussein rather than for the Nationalist ministers who negotiated...
...winds whipped the dry snow into waist-high drifts around the little police station at the Austrian border town of Rechnitz. Inside, a policeman huddled close to a well-tended fire. Suddenly there was a knock, and the door slammed open to admit a wintry blast of air and a man with a baby in his arms. "Please," he muttered. "Out there. My wife. More women and children. More people." Then he fainted. The policeman cranked his old-fashioned telephone, muttered a few words. A siren wailed and within minutes the able-bodied men and women of Rechnitz were mobilized...
Brugnoni, the rotund Field Marshall of the Harvard Young Americans for Rabbit Extermination, stated, however, that the new cold wave would "probably drive the little bunnies back in their holes, unless of course we blast them first...
...SOUTH Night of Terror In Montgomery, Ala., the cradle of the Confederacy, most good citizens were sleeping soundly one night last week when, at 1:55 a.m., the city shook from an explosion in one of the Southside Negro sections. Four minutes later another blast rocked another part of the city; it was followed almost immediately by two more. By then, as thousands of startled Montgomerians poured into the streets to survey the damage, it was plain what was on foot-a well-planned, militarylike raid on the citadels of the Negro integrationist movement...
...limbs under nuclear attack, the U.S. needs "deep underground shelters [so numerous] that in any densely populated area in this country people can walk to a shelter within 15 minutes." Stored in the shelters would be food, medicines, communications equipment, decontamination devices, and mining machinery for digging out through blast-blocked entrances. "These shelters," he writes, "could provide protection, not only against the radiation hazard, but also against the biggest immediate hazard, the fire-storm...