Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy crisis is adding to the problem is less clear. "It's a little early to get actual figures," admits Mrs.Tooze, "but we know - how well we know - that it happens." And even if it does, can't a bit of good cheer against the chill blast of winter be countenanced? "The only place for a cocktail,"says Mrs. Tooze, "is after the rooster...
...place where the President's car passed every morning. When Carrero Blanco drove by the spot after Mass, the assassins detonated a massive explosive charge, possibly an antitank mine. The explosion was powerful enough not only to kill Carrero Blanco, his chauffeur and bodyguard but to blast a 35-ft. hole in the street and blow parts of the car over the top of the five-story church and onto a balcony on the other side. It also sent reverberations the length and breadth of Spain...
...threw ourselves a Christmas blast...
...basis of their length of service in the unit. But these rules apply only within narrowly defined groups of jobs, or "lines," and seniority is not transferable from one line to another. Thus if a black with long years of service reaches the top of, say, a blast furnace line, he can go no higher unless he transfers to, perhaps, the rolling-mill section-and then he must start at the bottom of that line, often behind workers who have been employed at the plant for a shorter period; in many cases he loses part of his paycheck as well...
...with the locals and satisfying himself that he still talks their language, that he throws around enough 'shits' and 'motherfuckers' that they don't see he is a high-priced journalist working for a slick new magazine in New York, far away from the smoke belching out of the blast furnaces...