Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enter the Reds. The Communists, technically outlawed but in practice tolerated by the Vargas regime, went into action within minutes. With headlines in their newspaper screaming "Down with the Americans," they shrewdly turned the vague "international groups" phrase of Vargas' farewell note into a specific blast against the U.S. Red-manned sound-trucks egged crowds on to attack the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) building and the glass-walled U.S. embassy. At the embassy police opened up with machine guns and tear gas, routing the mob and wounding a dozen rioters...
...doors are made of thick steel, and operate as quickly and effectively as a ship's watertight hatches. Both exterior and interior walls are of reinforced concrete; the extra-thick south wall of the main building, exposed toward the probable target point of downtown Washington, can withstand a blast pressure of 35,000 Ibs. per square yard...
Died. Francis Mariotte (alias Frank Diamond), 61, Al ("Scarface") Capone's muscleboy during the racketeering heydays of the '205 and '303; of a shotgun blast (triggerman unknown) fired as he was opening his garage in Chicago's West Side. Swarthy, hotheaded Hoodlum Mariotte made a fortune as manager of Capone's far-flung network of brothels, since 1948 has been a Chicago contractor...
...utterly obsolete." What the great old man was referring to here is the fact that the hydrogen bomb has turned out to be an even more hideous and destructive weapon than was planned and expected. It has now been discovered that in certain special cases the heat and blast may be no more than the percussion cap of a much larger phenomenon...
...beginning of each test, a strong-walled tube six feet long and three inches in diameter is charged at high pressure with an explosive mixture of hydrogen, oxygen and helium. When the gas is detonated (with a bang like a 37 mm. gun), it ruptures a copper diaphragm. A blast of hot gases preceded by a shockwave races down a long evacuated tube. Pushed by pressure behind and pulled by the vacuum ahead, it expands through two nozzles and in a twinkling reaches the speed of 10,000 m.p.h. (13 times the speed of sound...