Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zero. Though the AEC's Division of Biology and Medicine warned of eye damage and burns, though not cancer, its Division of Military Application allowed the troops within four miles. The military's reasoning: the soldiers could more easily "exploit the enemy's position" after the blast...
...price rise will be too much. The world is still struggling to recover from the cartel's first blast of increases in 1973 and 1974, and the almost weekly current jumps have kept economists busy scaling back their global growth forecasts for 1979 and the 1980s...
...aliens, you hollow men, come to your senses and be with us." So pleaded an obviously agitated Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini last week in a nationally broadcast speech marking the anniversary of a 1963 uprising against the Shah in which 15,000 Iranians may have died. Khomeini went on to blast writers, journalists, lawyers and academicians for "using their pens and tongues against the Islamic revolution after it gave them freedom." That revolution, the Ayatullah insisted, "was made solely by the clergy, supported by the whole population." In an explicit warning to those who differ with his views, Khomeini said that...
Rich Dusek, manager of a gas station about 100 yds. from the crash site, heard "a big explosion" and saw flames shoot up 400 to 500 ft. in the air. "Then we felt the concussion," he said. "About five seconds later we felt a blast of heat. It was like sitting in front of a fireplace." The first rescue units were on the scene within three minutes. One aircraft engine still was flaming, and the aircraft fuel had ignited, starting fires in several nearby house trailers. Most of the plane was smashed into small scraps of metal. Many...
...shocking wastrel, besotted with its own resources, lighting its cigars with $1,000 bills. In winter, visitors remark, the U.S. is always too warm indoors, and in summer always too cold; in a flawless little American parable, Richard Nixon used to turn up the White House air conditioning full blast and then start a cozy blaze in the fireplace...