Word: blasts
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...line "radicals" and new-style "suits" has erupted openly in recent months as Greenpeace has suffered one public debacle after another. In the latest, activists sailed into the waters off Mururoa atoll early last month in a futile effort to get the French to halt resumption of nuclear-test blasts in the Pacific. But the protesters blundered into a trap, allowing the French navy to seize two vessels--the flagship Rainbow Warrior II and, more significantly, the group's largest support ship, MV Greenpeace. French authorities impounded a third protest vessel a few days before setting off a second atomic...
Cornell goalie Marybeth Bell barely got her hand on a Bingham shot from 30 yards out to send the ball just wide of the upper right corner. Bingham hit the crossbar on another blast...
...Because Greenpeace's boats have been confiscated, the organization currently has a greatly reduced capability to protest. The French government has very shrewdly focused on this strategic weakness, and was able to explode the bomb with very little resistance," reports TIME's James Geary. Hours before the explosion, a blast more than five times as powerful as the one that levelled Hiroshima, the French seized another Greenpeace vessel, the fourth since the tests began last month at the Mururoa Atoll. The strong international protests that marked the first test were also absent this time, with Japan, Russia, the United States...
Monmouth capitalized early on a 20-yard blast by sophomore Dana White into the lower, right corner of the Harvard...
Harvard continued to dominate play and stepped up the intensity a notch in the final five minutes. Perhaps the Crimson's best chance came on a 18-yard blast by Bowes that hit the cross-bar with 2:43 left in the game...