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Word: blasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mine buried in the unpaved shoulder. The explosion blew the Jeep and its passengers clear across the road and into a field. No one even bothered to look at the bodies; like pedestrians avoiding a dog mess, the refugees just skirted the hole dug by the blast and continued on toward safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Vietnamization: A Policy Under the Gun | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...sick of having to submit to the half-baked ideologies of ambitious musicians everytime you want to boogie. Power to the Working Class will provide a good musical blast of hard-nosed leftist sentiments. The idea of radical rock and roll has been haunting the music world since well before the absurd revolutionary posturings of the Jefferson Airplane, and parts of this album are good enough to make one really wonder why the Townsends and McCartneys have been tolerated for so long...

Author: By R. MICHAEL Kaus, | Title: The PLP-LP | 4/13/1972 | See Source »

Next day a series of bombs went off; one of them devastated a stretch of Belfast's Wellington Street and killed a British officer. Another 18 persons were injured in a blast in Lisburn, the site of British army headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Now It's Protestant Anger | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...share some of the trivial drudgery: she swears that gone are the days when, the country weekend over, the rest of the family sat out in the car waiting for her to pack up the last carryall and check the last stove burner, giving her an occasional impatient blast on the horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: How Women's Lib Looks to the Not-So-Mad Housewife | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...week, at the British army's 16th Parachute Brigade headquarters in Aldershot, 40 miles south of London, an event occurred that could go down in history as Bloody Tuesday. Just before lunchtime, a Ford Cortina containing 280 Ibs. of gelignite exploded beside the unguarded officers' mess. The blast tore through the concrete-slab building, injuring 19 and killing seven-five women, a civilian gardener and a Catholic chaplain who had been decorated for his attempts to bring peace to Northern Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Now, Bloody Tuesday | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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