Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awesome effects of the March 1 thermonuclear explosion (TIME, March 22) continued to reverberate around the world. By last week the big blast had touched off an investigation in Washington, spread panic through Japan and strained U.S.-Japanese relations. The latest bad news came from a Japanese fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru (Fortunate Dragon), which churned into its home port of Yaizu last week with more than 16,500 lbs. of radioactive tuna and shark and 23 terrified crewmen. They had reason to be frightened: all had been burned by radioactive ash, and the most severely injured men were showing...
...bright as the sun itself. The sky around them glowed fiery red and yellow. The glow went on for several minutes-perhaps two or three-and then the yellow seemed to fade away. It left a dull red, like a piece of iron cooling in the air. The blast came about five minutes later [with] the sound of many thunders rolled into one. Next we saw a pyramid-shaped cloud rising, and the sky began to cloud over most curiously. The thought of pikadon flashed through my mind, I think, but we were busy and went back to our nets...
...other students who were affected by the blast have now completely recovered...
Kochi was working in his office adjoining the lab when the accident occurred. His first reaction when he heard the noise, he says, was simply to run out and see what caused it. The blast completely demolished the beaker with which Maidanick was working and slightly injured the two other students who were standing nearby, but it caused no damage to the lab itself...
...nomination for Congress from the 26th District in spite of his formal admissions of wholesale adultery (later denied), Candidate James Roosevelt found the going rough. Protesting his endorsement by the district's Democratic Council, the South La Cienega Democratic Club withdrew from the parent group with the blast: "On the basis of [Roosevelt's] unique attitude toward the Seventh Commandment . . . we would rather not be a party to this reckless gambling of our present Democratic seat in Congress...