Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same day, speaking at a civic reception in Bangalore. India, Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev added some more information and a helping of propaganda. The experiment, said Khrushchev, used a "minimum" amount of atomic material to create a "maximum" explosion. His interpreter said the blast was equal to "a million tons of TNT." but some Russian reporters insisted that Khrushchev said "more than one million tons." Then, after announcing that "Russia will never be first to abuse this power." Khrushchev clapped his hands above his head to lead the applause for his own statement. After the applause he went...
Student reactions to proposals for changes in the Freshman Smoker were mixed yesterday. Most students contacted felt that the Administration had "a good idea" in changing the present Smoker, but objected to its vow to crack down to prevent a repetition of last year's "blast...
...Mark Earle '59, chairman of this year's Union Committee, stated the need "to hold a 'blast-type' Smoker on an appropriate level, if necessary, in the dormitories." He added that, "This would cause the affair to lose its place as a class party...
...master of ceremonies at last year's Smoker, Larry R. Johnson '58, felt that "the Administration is over-emphasizing the 'blast' tendencies of the 1955 party. The Pops idea," he continued, "would be a better way of holding a real class party." Johnson objected to the fact that the Freshmen, acting through their Smoker Committee, might not have the right to determine the form of Smoker they want...
...organs weighed 40 times normal. His arms and legs must have flailed like propeller blades. His helmet, shoes, socks, gloves, wristwatch and ring were stripped off. His seat blew away automatically; his parachute opened and his unconscious, battered body drifted down toward the sea half a mile offshore. Air blast had inflated his stomach and lungs so that his body floated when it hit the water...