Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skyward. A concussion measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale flipped over cars and shattered thousands of windows in the Las Vegas area. Although 350 people were treated for burns or minor injuries, there appeared to be only two deaths. Nevada Governor Richard Bryan called it a "miracle" that a blast so large had taken a toll so small...
...years after Reactor No. 4 spewed fatal clouds of radiation from the Chernobyl power station, the Soviet public was jolted last week by another blast. The Communist Party daily Pravda charged that sloppy workmanship, mismanagement and lax safety standards -- the very conditions blamed for causing the accident that claimed 31 lives -- continue to plague the Chernobyl complex. Fumed the newspaper: "It is as though there hasn't been an accident...
Although Harvard (11-9 overall, 2-4 Ivy) could not manage a sweep that would have put the Crimson in a tie for second place with Brown and Yale (12-24, 4-2) in the Ivies, the hosts still had their level of intensity blaring at full blast...
...which you loudly support and propagate. Do you really think it's true? You know, the grass really is greener in the yard next door...I would suggest that in the interests of accuracy that you think about the veracity of the club myth before launcing into yet another blast of yellow journalism. Austin W. Moore...
...explosive experts flew to Italy to see if the bombs in New Jersey and the blast in Naples were connected. The Naples suspect, Okudaira, was sought for a similar car-bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Rome last June while President Reagan was attending a seven-nation economic summit in Venice. Okudaira's organization is believed to have trained in Lebanon with Islamic Jihad, a Shi'ite Muslim group with ties to Iran. Responsibility for the Naples explosion was claimed by various factions of Islamic Jihad, one saying the attack was in retribution for the U.S. air assault...