Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly, an enormous explosion shattered the summer stillness of the harbor. The blast blew the boat "to smithereens," in the words of one eyewitness, and hurled all seven occupants into the water. Nearby fishermen raced to the rescue. Still breathing, Lord Mountbatten was pulled into one of the boats. He died, his legs nearly blown off, almost immediately. Two Belfast doctors on holiday hastily set up a makeshift aid station on the wharf, using old doors for stretchers, broken broomsticks for splints and ripped-up sheets to bind up wounds until ambulances arrived to rush the victims to Sligo General...
Growing up, you heard fairy tales. Growing up in the north of England, Alan Price heard about the Jarrow March. The government shut down the shipbuilding yards, even blew up construction cranes. The workers were starving; their children had rickets. The people of Jarrow staged a hunger march, walked the 280 miles to London to confront a government that refused to see them. Some 30 years later, Price wrote a song for them. It was rilled with pride, a particular kind of chin-out toughness set to an easy melody fit for a pub choir, and it had a memorable...
...predators as well as victims. A city woman in At Paso Rojo visits her brother's ranch and makes a pass at one of his Indian employees; he loses his job as a consequence. After causing this injustice, the woman "shrugged her shoulders, got into the bed ... blew out the lamp, listened for a few minutes to the night sounds, and went peacefully to sleep, thinking of how surprisingly little time it had taken her to get used to life at Paso Rojo, and even, she had to admit now, to begin to enjoy it." Bowles' irony passes...
What services did not close down for lack of funds were wrecked by Macias' often inexplicable decisions. Malabo's lone-electric generating plant has been out of commission since it blew up two years ago after Macias decided that it should be operated without lubricating...
...William Balles loaded it with C-4 plastiques, 50 gal. of gas, and black powder wrapped in naphthalene-a mix designed to make the explosion as fiery as possible. A special "cable-cutting" charge was planted to send the Huey tumbling at just the right moment. When the copter blew up, on cue this time, the sound was heard 40 miles away. One local radio station called it a sonic boom...