Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Moscow put out a blast against Thailand's "venal, corrupt, half-Fascist" government. From Washington came gloomy predictions of the next Red move: to campaign for an "Autonomous Thai Federation," which is already organized among the Thais who live inside South China. This grouping is designed to embrace 1,100,000 Laotians and 3,700,000 Cambodians (many of Thai stock), in addition to the 19 million Thais of Thailand. As such, it would make a handsome Red jewel to set beside a Viet Nam run by Ho Chi Minh...
When the explosion came, Kent's President Phil Wilmer was in his office. He ran outside just in time to see the second and worst explosion blast "B" Building's roof into the sky, as shrieking women streamed from under its crumbling walls. Wilmer picked up a bleeding, weeping woman, carried her to the plant gate...
...four burly Pratt & Whitney J57 jet engines blast out more than 40,000 Ibs. of thrust, twice the power of the Comet's four engines, enough to push the 707 through the sky at 550-m.p.h. cruising speed, about 60 m.p.h. faster than the Comet I, about 50% faster than the fastest prop-driven airliners. The 707 is designed to fly the Atlantic in less than seven hours, give the sun a race from east to west. It will be able to leave New York at noon, arrive in Los Angeles...
...thing that tuba players have in common is a fear that audiences are laughing at them. To many nonmusicians, indeed, the tuba appears absurd -there is always some fellow in the audience who hopes to see a pair of pigeons flutter wildly out of the bell at first blast...
...words "stripped down." The necessary equipment, he says, is all there, but more compact. The Hot-Rod's air-conditioning unit weighs only a third of those on conventional fighters, the ejection seat goes down through the floor instead of using the more complicated explosive mechanism needed to blast it up over the tail. By making the plane smaller all around, Heinemann has been able to eliminate the heavy, wing-folding mechanisms of most Navy planes. Thus, the Hot-Rod can fit into any carrier elevator with wings outstretched, fly off any escort carrier's short deck...