Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jericho's claim to fame is the way it was captured by Joshua. As the Lord commanded, he and the children of Israel marched around the city once a day for six days. On the seventh, after a blast of trumpets and a mighty shout, the walls came tumbling down.* This happened about 1370 B.C., but it was a comparatively recent episode in the long history of Jericho...
Maudlin or Morbid. Pope turned a searing blast of his flamethrower on the out-and-out secular as well as the bogus Christian. "If you give nearly eighty percent of your time to entertainment and two percent to religion, the implications of that fact are not lost on the public ... If religious programs are often maudlin, a high percentage of the other programs is simply morbid...
...already been recognized in humans. Dr. William C. Moloney of Tufts Medical School and Dr. Robert D. Lange report in Blood, The Journal of Hematology on leukemia (blood cancer) among Japanese atom-bomb survivors. Most people near the centers of explosion at Hiroshima and Nagasaki died of heat or blast. Some survived these effects, but got heavy doses of gamma rays and neutrons. In Hiroshima, 750 people who had been within 1,000 meters (3,300 ft.) recovered from their radiation sickness and remained apparently well for years. Then an unusual number of them showed symptoms of leukemia...
...bomb's three threats to human life (heat, blast and gamma rays), the heat radiation reaches farthest with full killing effect. Its rays, however, cannot penetrate opaque substances. The Chemical Corps has proved by experiments in Nevada that dense carbon smoke screens off most of the heat. Such smoke can be generated in enormous quantities by burning coal or oil improperly in industrial furnaces. So when the warning comes, General Creasy suggests, smoking chimneys should draw a black blanket over the target city. Gamma rays, of course, will pass through smoke as if it were not there...
...Marshal Pétain, who, at 84, had come to believe that "age was a major quality." A sort of Little Father to the people of France, he might have seized the "trumpet from the Angel of Victory at the Arc de Triomphe" and blown such a blast as could "awaken France." But Father Pétain had no breath to spare for trumpeting. Ever since the German breakthrough and the British evacuation from Dunkirk, his mind had been fixed on the idea of saving France by surrendering to Germany, and when he uttered the word "catastrophe," his voice "sounded...