Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporters on the scene told of seeing one youth, bleeding heavily from the leg, being helped away by a friend. When asked what had happened, he shouted "shotgun blast." Pitchess reported that one of his deputies had been severely injured by flying rocks...
...routinely spray cleaning her empty oil tanks with jets of sea water. For no apparent reason, an explosion ripped through the hull, sending the brand-new ship to the bottom. Two weeks later, an oil hold of the supertanker Mactra blew up in the Mozambique Channel; next day a blast blew apart the Kong Haakon VII off Liberia. Last summer there were two more tanker explosions. Scientists and oilmen were at a loss for an explanation...
...unidentified caller said the big blast would come at 4 p.m. By 3:30, Harvard police had cleared all three buildings. They combed the buildings, came out empty-handed, and opened the doors once more. Shortly after 5 p.m., life in Lamont was back to its dismal norm...
...electric chair at Trenton State Penitentiary. Instead of vegetating in his cell, Smith, now 36, has fully employed his genius-level IQ (154). He has read scores of books, rushed through college correspondence courses and written two published books, one a novel (A Reasonable Doubt) and the other a blast at U.S. justice (Brief Against Death). Still proclaiming his innocence, he has also become a first-rate jailhouse lawyer, personally filing appeals that even the judge who sentenced him admits show "the consummate skill of a seasoned practitioner...
Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief John Healy said that he had "no idea at all how the fire started. By the time we got here the fire was in full blast and we just wanted to put it out. As in any case where we don't know how a fire started, we'll turn it over to the State Fire Marshals...