Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...railway bridge that spans the gorge below the spectacular cataract and straddles the borders of Zambia and Rhodesia, the Secretary stepped across a white line onto Rhodesian territory, then quipped, "At least now I know what the issues look like." The gesture, coming on the heels of a blast at Kissinger from Rhodesia's Ian Smith for not visiting Salisbury before criticizing his government, took on a slightly surreal quality when it turned out that it had all been prearranged two weeks before by Washington so that Rhodesian security guards would not fire on the Secretary when he stepped...
...annual 1812 Overture blast in Lowell courtyard, which traditionally takes place on this date, has been deferred until the next Sunday afternoon, May 16, so that the Adams House rafts will be able to stay afloat in relatively serene waters...
Otis tied the contest an inning later with his long blast off loser Fergie Jenkins, now 1-4. The Royals went ahead in the sixth on a fielder's choice and a bases-loaded single by Rojas...
...dragged from his car and stabbed by four black youths in the Roslindale section. In an apparently unrelated episode, an explosion ripped through a wall of the municipal courthouse, injuring 19 people, nine seriously enough to be hospitalized. An anonymous female caller had warned courthouse officials of the blast 20 minutes before it happened...
...forces, the guerrillas immediately opened fire, killing three male cyclists and wounding their 19-year-old woman companion. At the same time, the guerrillas detonated a grenade atop a land mine placed under the tracks of the Rhodesia-South Africa railroad-just as a freight train was passing. The blast derailed the train and destroyed a section of the track. Three days later, terrorists fired at a farmer in a passing car, wounding him in the shoulder...