Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Says Celia Hunter, a lodge keeper who came to the territory 42 years ago: "Alaskans have always looked for the big bang that would solve all their problems." Some development schemes were downright absurd. In the late 1950s, Hunter helped quash a proposal to use atom bombs to blast an artificial harbor out of the northern coast. "The argument even then was jobs, jobs, jobs," she says...
...survivors related their thoughts and fearsat the time of the blast to the shocked listeners,describing the carnage that precipitated the closeof World...
After Yale destroyed Princeton, 7-2, the Elis were heavily favored to blast the Crimson. But Harvard clinched the Yale match by winning five of the first six matches, a feat that left the Eli players stunned...
...alone through San Diego on her way to her job as a schoolteacher. As her white Toyota van was stopped for a red light, a bomb exploded from underneath. Just before the vehicle burst into flames, Mrs. Rogers jumped out, shaken but unharmed. The van was gutted by the blast. Shards of metal had pierced its roof, barely missing her head. The significance of the bomb, which may have been triggered by remote control, almost certainly lay with Captain Rogers. He is commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, the guided-missile cruiser that shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian...
Seconds pass. Berkoff rises out of the water. He is alone, racing uncontested. Three, two, one, blast...