Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful inventor who lives in Paris, designed a primitive turbine-engine plane in 1909 and a scale-model saucer in 1947. But his great contribution to the art of making flying saucers was the principle he discovered in 1937: curving one side of a nozzle will deflect a jet blast to follow the curved side...
...thin-haired bandleader used an unorthodox method to get his crew going on a fast number. Dropping into a distance-runner's stance, he stamped out four beats and shouted a hoarse, rapid-fire "Bow! Bow!" On the next beat the 15-man outfit exploded into a shrieking blast that turned out to be a wild-eyed, half-humorous version of Lover, Come Back to Me. To start quieter numbers, such as Pres. Conference, the bandleader preferred to count out the beat or snap his fingers, and the band followed through with a brooding performance that played...
Ride to Buckingham. Every whistle in London Harbor let loose a blast as she stepped ashore to the roar of a 41-gun salute, to be greeted by members of her own family and by government officials headed by beaming Sir Winston Churchill, who bowed to the Queen and her husband and shook hands gravely with the five-year-old Duke of Cornwall. It was the gallant old Prime Minister's second official greeting. By special invitation he had spent the previous night on the royal yacht, and scurried home in the morning to change from his Trinity House...
...within the radiation area, 30 showed major injuries and had three miscarriages, four stillbirths, six babies who died within a year and four mentally retarded. The other 68 escaped grave injury, but also had a far higher proportion of stillborn or stunted children than a similar group outside the blast area. ¶Measles has been rampant in some parts of the U.S. this year, with 30,475 cases by mid-April. Indiana spotted itself for distinction: with one-fortieth of the nation's population, it had almost one-half of the measles14,096 cases. fl ¶A 73-year...
...first meeting with the board of directors. Adams outlined plans for more open-hearth capacity, for blast-furnace improvements and new sheet mills for the industry's fastest-growing markets (cars, home appliances, etc.). When Adams estimated that all this would cost $56 million, the directors were flabbergasted. This was more than double the $27.5 million valuation of all the company's plants. But Adams persuaded them to et him go ahead, found it actually cost another...