Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friends off the hall come in and watch. Someone picks up the movie and someone else gets the popcorn--it's a blast," says Berkman...
...thundered into space last week, the tall, slender rocket looked like hundreds of satellite boosters launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Despite a drizzling rain, the blast-off put a marine observation satellite into orbit without a hitch. The launch pad, though, was not in California or Florida. It was on Tanegashima Island, and the rocket bore on its side, in prominent black letters, a single word: NIPPON...
...times bloodshed seemed to be war-torn Lebanon's only certainty. A powerful car bomb killed 15 people and injured 80 in a suburb of Muslim West Beirut as the week began. The moderate Shi'ite Amal militia blamed the blast on the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was driven out of Beirut during the 1982 Israeli invasion, and is now trying to make a comeback. Battles raged throughout the week between Amal militiamen and Palestinian fighters. In Beirut a relentless Amal blockade of Palestinian camps forced thousands of starving residents to adopt extreme measures to feed themselves...
Meanwhile, in East Germany, autos puffed exhaust into the East Berlin air as usual, and factories operated at full blast...
...Howley's blast from just inside the blue line with 13 minute left in the second period gave Harvard a comfortable 3-1 lead. His breakaway goals with 10 minutes gone in the final period lifted the Crimson to a 7-3 advantage. It also got the fans--lulled by the Crimson's dominance--onto their feet. Screaming madly. Howling for Howley...