Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble began in late September, when three electrical-transmission towers, all over 70 ft. high, in a remote, wooded area 140 miles east of Portland, Ore., were rocked by a dynamite blast. Since then, ten more towers in a region that stretches 140 miles east of Portland have been dynamited-three of them toppled. Another three were found with attached explosive devices that had failed to go off. Clearly, somebody was out to sabotage the facilities of the Bonneville Power Administration, the federally owned agency that provides 80% of the electric power used in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana...
...senior goalkeeper saved 13 of the 27 Dartmouth shots on the goal, eight of which occurred in the first half. The only Green blast to get past Bryan came after just 3:23 had elapsed in the game. Steve Alfred took the pass from one of the Ivy League's premier assisters, Bruce Bokor (six assists in three Ivy contests), for the lone Dartmouth tally. Bokor now holds both the Dartmouth season and career (11 so far) assist records...
What Carnegie did was go electronic. Last week at a gala recital presented by Concert Organist Virgil Fox, the hall showed off its newest feature-a behemoth that can growl, sing, tinkle, purr and blast in a way unmatched by any other organ. A one-of-a-kind creation built by the Rodgers Organ Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., the new instrument is the most up-to-date and expensive electronic organ in the world. Carrying a price tag of $200,000, it took 23 months to design, construct and install. The finished product fairly bulges with audio-oscillators, sine-wave...
...through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, Schmidt, 55, is only five years younger than Willy Brandt, but his brusque, businesslike style has made it seem as if a new generation has taken over in Bonn. Bouncing out of his Rhineside bungalow early each morning, he likes to blast a referee's whistle as he starts across the lawn to the chancellery. The message to his aides: get things moving. To Germans, he is known as a Macher (doer). He has cut out the rambling presentations from ministers that Brandt allowed and lectured them on his credo: "There...
David B. Wilson, a columnist who did blast this racism, delivered the following cloying and romanticized perception, on seeing a black baby in the subway...