Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion picture of the March 1 thermonuclear-bomb test in mid-Pacific arrived last week in Washington. Those who watched a top-secret screening were impressed by the horrendous blast, and even more impressed by the voice of the scientist-commentator on the sound track...
...blast reached out with a force three times greater than the estimates, the scientist's running commentary was audibly distorted by surprise and fear...
There is no "organized goodfellowship" at Leverett. One entry beer party a year, a House blast, and a closed dance is the only attempt to fit into that category. The Bunnies are inclined to stick together in tight groups for their socializing...
...their supplies of Geiger counters, and all incoming fishing boats were checked for radiation. The highly radioactive Fortunate Dragon was quarantined and the entire crew hospitalized. U.S. Ambassador John Allison offered profound official apologies, promised restitution if "the facts so warrant." Meanwhile, there were other aftereffects of the blast...
...bugles sound. Two Red regiments, 2,000 men in dark green, come out of the jungle on the double. They blast holes in the French wire and scale Bea trice at its steepest points. ("We had trouble angling our guns low enough to hit them," said a legionnaire. "We threw grenades down, but they kept on climbing like monkeys.") At 2000, the Communists overrun one legion company. At 2 200, they attack the Algerian battalion on Gabrielle. At midnight, they go for De Castries' southernmost position, but there the French guns cut them to pieces...