Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, two people were reported killed and 14 injured in an unexplained blast at an army ranger camp in Lamego, which the government said had nothing to do with military unrest...
...kept right on going the other way. Fine, we figure, the guy never even came down to miss the fucking thing. Next thing, I turn around and there's the police boat and two Coast Guard cutters with those blue lights turning; so we turn the boat on full blast and head for shore and somebody finally yells jump; well, I was pretty drunk and jumped over the side holding on to another bottle and a portable television set; I lost the TV right away and came up by an old building next to the water; meanwhile, everybody has jumped...
...course through the sky exceeded that of the moon. But most startling of all, it came within 36 miles of the earth's surface, traveling at 33,000 m.p.h. before soaring off into space. Had it hit, says one expert, the impact would have rivaled the blast of the atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World...
...Soviet design employs a revolutionary principle: the jet blast from the eight engines mounted on the stubby forward wing is aimed to hit the water and bounce back up under the main wing to create a lifting bubble of air similar to that on which Hovercraft ride. When fully developed in the late '70s, the creation is expected to thunder along at speeds up to 350 m.p.h. while flying only 25 to 50 feet above the water-low enough to make radar detection difficult. What is more, the huge aircraft could make two-to three-day voyages extending...
About 1,200 U.S. companies mine coal, but ten of them consistently account for almost half of the nation's production. Four are owned by large metals manufacturers, which are skilled at mining and shipping ores and use much coal in their smelters and blast furnaces. Four others are owned by oil or gas companies. Another, Clinchfield, is owned by Pittston Co., which also has oil interests. Only one of the Big Ten, North American Coal, is independent...