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Word: blasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whoever wanted to send the Senators that message certainly could not be characterized as a spendthrift. The envelopes carrying the blast were franked with a privately printed stamp picturing a pair of hands held in prayer, the American flag and the inscriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cheap Shot | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...powerful explosion tore the western wall from a 24-story office building in Manhattan, injuring more than 90 people. Witness after witness told of smelling gas fumes before the explosion, and the city's fire commissioner called it "highly probable" that a weekend buildup of gas caused the blast. Con Ed automatically issued a statement denying that gas, which it provides for the city, was involved...

Author: By Rich Meislin, | Title: Denying Consolidated Edison | 4/25/1974 | See Source »

...like the Ohio State football team has just charged onto the record--HEY, HEY, HEY--rather than end it Springsteen is dragging it out, on a level plane, at its moment of ultimate climax, of absolute ecstasy--HEY, HEY, HEY--the saxophone blasting higher and higher in Latin swoops, faster and faster--and then it is over in a final blast. You want more, but not really, since it is not clear that there could be any more...

Author: By Mickey Kaus, | Title: "I Ain't Here On Business" | 4/24/1974 | See Source »

...Lions opened the scoring in the second inning, as Ron Pettinger unloaded a towering blast off Harrell for a home run and a 1-0 lead. Columbia made it 2-0 one inning later, but the Crimson hurlers then shut the door and left the matter up to the hitters...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Crimson Nine Tops Lions In Thirteen Innings, 6-2 | 4/13/1974 | See Source »

...could Nixon take any comfort from a blast by Chesterfield Smith, a Lakeland, Fla., trial lawyer who is president of the American Bar Association. Said he: "I completely and wholly disagree with Mr. Nixon's contention that dragging out Watergate drags down America. The American people want wrongdoing uncovered and the wrongdoers punished, no matter how high the office they hold. By claiming Executive privilege, the President is obstructing justice, whether legally or illegally." Smith said that when Nixon claims that he is "not a crook," he ought "to define what a crook is. He has not aided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Pressing Hard for the Evidence | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

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