Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blasts. Bell's VTOL has conventional controls (ailerons and tail surfaces) for use when flying horizontally. These do not work when the craft has no forward speed, so tubes of compressed air from the engines' compressors are carried out to the tail and the wingtips. The pilot controls the plane's attitude on the rise or descent by varying the strength of the air blast from the ends of the tubes...
...Casablanca, three late-staying Moroccans asked for another round of drinks. "Go on, give it to them," the proprietor told his wife. "It's the last drink they'll ever have." Riding home in their car a few minutes later, the Moroccans were shot down by a blast of machine-gun bullets. Names like that of the bistro's proprietor are often spoken of in connection with Moroccan antiterrorism. But until unintimidated witnesses stand ready to testify, the officials are helpless. "We need an airtight case," insisted one French authority last week. "We can't risk...
Student protests by the dozens won't persuade fire officials to silence the noontime blast of the Civil Defense siren stop Littauer, Deputy Fire Chief Edmund Burke said yesterday...
With that, Coates printed his first angry blast about "the law," which "in its majestic equality, makes more damn fool mistakes." On New Year's Day, with Larry still locked up, Coates drove to Eagle Mountain and talked to the boy's teacher, who said that he was just "a normal, average kid." He talked to the townspeople and found them a decent lot, who had even taken up a collection to help Larry's father pay legal expenses. A day later, when Columnist Coates presented the parents on his TV show, the reaction was instantaneous: shocked...
Although Laborites could argue that Britain's prospering economy helped the rise, there was little doubt about the real reason for it: private capital. Held back when steel was nationalized, capital is once more flowing in to build new coke ovens, blast furnaces, rolling mills, etc. Now plans are under way to build one of the biggest strip mills in the world with a million-ton annual capacity at a cost of $280 million...