Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aboard the big jet, terror struck swiftly. As the guerrillas prepared to take control of the plane, a grenade exploded in the hand of a woman member of the gang. She died in the blast...
...launch itself will require unusual precision. If the astronauts are to rendezvous in their Apollo command ship with the 230-nautical-mile-high laboratory within the prescribed five revolutions of the earth, their lift-off cannot be delayed more than ten minutes. Otherwise, the blast-off will have to be postponed until the next day. But by then the launch "window" will, have shrunk to a mere two minutes, and it will take the astronauts two more revolutions to reach the laboratory...
...Those worries were not helped last week when China exploded a hydrogen bomb in Sinkiang province. It was China's 15th test explosion since it joined the nuclear club in 1964. Estimated to be in the two-to three-megaton range, it was probably the biggest Chinese nuclear blast to date...
...mpora's government moved-fitfully it seemed-to try to reverse the drift toward chaos. It announced that Perónist organizers and students who had occupied government offices, institutes and hospitals last month would be immediately evicted. The announcement brought an angry blast from the Trotskyite People's Revolutionary Army, the country's most powerful guerrilla organization...
Even as the directive came down, the Vatican was still reverberating from a 10,000-word blast recently issued by Dom Giovanni Franzoni, abbot of the famous Benedictine monastery of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome. Dom Giovanni, who is also a bishop, distributed his angry document, entitled "The Earth Is God's," to journalists at the June meeting of Italy's bishops in Vatican City. In it, he charged that the church is involved in "capitalistic exploitations at the economic, social and ideological levels." As one effort to reverse that alliance, Dom Giovanni announced...