Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army's catcher Dietz touched Driscoll for a home run to open the bottom of the sixth, and the blast ignited the Cadets. A pinch-hit single, a double and a walk, sandwiched around a ground out to Durso at shortstop, loaded the bases...
...operetta, it is, after all, a period piece. And that is exactly how the play is handled in this production--which, thank God, doesn't try to get funny with any embarrassing 20th-century gimmickry. There are plenty of slapstick embellishments, but--from the opening blast of "God Save the Queen" to the fake 19th-century programs, this production remains true to the spirits of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan themselves...
...phone, "Shut up and show the goddamn movie!" they yelled, perhaps in frustration at Moe's illness. It seemed paradoxical considering that they'd obviously showed up for the carnival of it all, and a mere screening would have been no more than a mellow and healthily rowdy blast. The Stooges all alone couldn't have aroused anything but good nature...
...level has dropped more than eight feet, leaving fishing villages and port facilities high and dry; the fish catch has been cut more than half. To compensate for the continuing water loss, the Soviets are planning a bold and imaginative project that calls for use of nuclear explosives to blast out more than half of a 70-mile canal across northern Russia...
...Thatcher's offer to Heath of a shadow cabinet post was taken as further evidence of her willingness to mute party conflicts. Calling at his Wilton Street house-still under repair after a pre-Christmas I.R.A. bomb blast-she renewed her invitation to have him join her as shadow Foreign Secretary. As she knew in advance that he would, he declined, stating a preference for a less conspicuous backbench perch-perhaps in the hope that if things go badly for Mrs. Thatcher he will be recalled to party leadership...