Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what end? Proponents of the project tout it as the salvation of what is now one of the nation's poorest regions. Mississippi Senator John Stennis calls Tenn-Tom "the greatest economic milestone since the Louisiana Purchase." Says Alabama Governor George Wallace, who detonated the first blast of dynamite inaugurating Tenn-Tom: "I'll do everything in my power to see that this worthwhile project is carried through to the finish." Already $189 million in federal funds has been spent...
...June 2, 1976, a top Arizona investigative reporter, Don Bolles, 47, was fatally mutilated when a dynamite blast ripped his car apart. That explosion is still reverberating in Arizona-louder than ever. It has shaken the confident, well-entrenched Establishment to its foundation, and it has also stirred the first real attempt at serious law enforcement since Arizona joined the union in 1912. All this is now being dramatized by an extraordinary journalistic enterprise. Six months ago, 36 reporters from 27 news organizations, calling themselves IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors Association), went to Arizona to carry on Bolles' work...
...vote came only a few hours after a Carter blast at Senate opponents of Warnke; at his midweek press conference, the President accused them of being rigid hawks who simply "don't want to see a substantial reduction in nuclear weapons." Warnke's opponents quickly-and plausibly-characterized the close vote on the SALT job as a warning to Carter (and Moscow) that any arms agreement unacceptable to congressional hard-liners may face difficulty in the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required for ratification...
...Izvestia blast was only one of several harsh Kremlin responses to Washington's concern for dissent and freedom in the Soviet Union. Items...
...game was a hard-fought contest, especially in the late stages. Lacy's blast in the seventh gave the Dodgers a 4-3 edge. The Red Sox regained the lead in the opening of the ninth with a pair of doubles by Doug Griffen and Andy Merchant and a Ramon Aviles single...