Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scorching heat, both of which seem to be remote possibilities this year. Even last week's cold snap did not kill enough tree buds in the East to have much effect, although snowstorms may have done the trick in the Midwest. Nor is Texas expected to experience its usual blast-furnace summer, which in most years can be counted on to burn away enough pollen-producing plants to give the state a break in July and August...
...bomb that leveled Hiroshima. If it hit in the ocean, he predicted, it would cause a tsunami (commonly called a tidal wave) hundreds of feet high, flooding the coastlines of surrounding continents. "Where cities stood," he said, "there would be only mudflats." A land hit, he calculated, would blast out a crater at least 30 miles across and throw up a blanket of dust and vapor that would blot out the sun "for weeks, if not months...
...been discovered only 90 million miles away and on a beeline toward Earth, for example, the equivalent of a 1-megaton explosion would have been necessary to shove it into a safe orbit. Had it first been spotted at just a tenth of that distance, a 100-megaton blast would have been needed to turn it away...
...billion people through some dangerous political and economic shoals. Among his most immediate problems: repairing a chaotic and bankrupt financial system, closing thousands of rust-bucket factories useful only for soaking up excess labor, and stemming rising unemployment and social unrest, which recently exploded in a fatal bomb blast in the industrial city of Wuhan...
...weeks ago, the first-year spent 10 hours aday rehearsing for two shows simultaneously. "It'salways a blast meeting new people and sharing thestage," he says, "and, yes, Harvard shows willhelp my resume...