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Word: blasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maybe it is time for people to know they have help." And so, starry-eyed and full of hope, Karl headed southward, and she did catch a distant glimpse of what she took to be a spaceship. "It looked like a whole lot of orange light," she says. "A blast of light spherical in shape. It was big and far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...zoom above him, the plane-crazy boy crash-dives into delirium; his dreams have singed him by flying too close, poisoned him with their oil and cordite. Alone with an ailing woman (Miranda Richardson), who stokes his first erotic fantasies, Jim looks up and sees the atomic blast over Hiroshima as a blazing crystal vision. Even at the end, when a plane drops bundles of Spam and Luckies like a Christmas pinata, Jim knows his perspective will be forever darkened. No child can see all this and hold onto childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man-Child Who Fell to Earth EMPIRE OF THE SUN | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Redman's statement came on the heels of an angry Soviet blast from Geneva charging the United States with hampering completion of the treaty to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviets Hand Over Data To Clear Summit Snag | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

...admit it. I was a video game whiz-kid in high school. I could vaporize little green monsters, blast space rocks, and shoot up giant space ships better than anybody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Video Games Killed the Pinball Star | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

...Donato's power play goal seven minutes into the final period that started the Crimson scoring run. Less than two minutes later, Sweeney scored unassisted with an authoritative blast from the top of the left circle that clearly beat a diving O'Neill...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Spear Yale's Whale, Torpedo Slow Bulldogs, 7-2 | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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