Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city as public safety commissioner, personified entrenched white supremacy. In Birmingham's embattled spring of 1963, Connor coldly ordered his police and firemen to cut off black marches on downtown with fire hoses, police dogs and clubs. A series of bombings culminated one September morning in a blast that ripped open a black church, killing four small girls in Sunday-school class learning "the love that forgives...
...they are also television's own Olympics, with their news departments' prestige at stake. Besides, there is the adrenaline of it: a fatiguing 12-hour day watching over his loyal floormen from a swivel-chaired aerie has to be as heady for Walter Cronkite as describing five blast-offs Into space. Yet all the feats of gadgetry, all the energetic floor work went largely to waste during last week's noisy and frequently mindless prime-time demonstrations...
...page book entitled How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed, which is based on a resurvey of the evidence by two prominent Navy scientists, Rickover argues that there is no sign of the kind of "rupture or deformation which would have resulted from a contact mine." What did cause the blast? Probably, says Rickover, a spontaneous combustion of bituminous coal in the Maine's fuel hold, and then an explosion of its ammunition...
...supervision of an American professor. Indeed, as Rassias explained to TIME Correspondent David Wood, getting students overseas is a major goal of the program. "We're gonna take these kids and dynamite some raw language into them," he said with typical gusto. "Then they're gonna blast out of here and smash into France, and they're gonna destroy everybody with how well they talk...
...from his suburban residence for Dublin last week, in a blue Jaguar followed by two Irish police cars. As the Jaguar crossed a sewer 150 yds. from the house, two men lurking in nearby bushes detonated by remote control about 500 Ibs. of explosives hidden inside. The blast gouged a crater 10 ft. deep, hurled the Jaguar into the air and sent stones flying for several hundred yards. The ambassador and a secretary, Judith Cook, 25, were killed. Gravely injured were the chauffeur and Brian Cubbon, British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who had come from Belfast...