Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since 1969. Street riots and open battles have almost disappeared; sniping attacks on British soldiers have eased off; even bombings have diminished, though they still can have horrifying impact. Three days after Christmas, a bomb exploded in a car in the Republic of Ireland border town of Belturbet. The blast killed a girl, 16, who was passing by on a shopping errand, and a boy, 16, who was in a nearby phone booth. But those deaths were accidental. The chilling trend is toward the deliberate killing of often obscure and apparently peaceable citizens...
Implicit in the mood is the conviction that should he be "diddled" again in Paris, yet another blitz will be ordered. If Hanoi does not resume the talks in the proper vein, says a source close to the President, "he'll turn it up full blast again." The U.S. expects Hanoi in particular...
...shadow of the gunman still hung over Northern Ireland. This year alone more than 450 people died in the terror. A bomb blast in downtown Dublin killed
...autumnal, post-landslide truce between the Nixon Administration and the TV networks ended abruptly last week with a wintry blast from Indianapolis. Speaking before a local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Clay T. Whitehead, director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP), attacked the networks-particularly network news-with a harshness reminiscent of Vice President Agnew's florid denunciations of three years ago. Whitehead derided what he called the "ideological plugola" of TV newsmen who sell their own political views, and tartly dismissed "socalled professionals who confuse sensation with sense and who dispense elitist gossip...
...when you look through it. Recitals of 17th and 18th century romantic poetry are interspersed with luridly explicit readings from a porno catalogue. Every serious motion, every attempt at discourse, is interrupted by a song and dance, or a conga line, or a snippet of newsreel, or a blast of music, or a wisecrack from the audience...