Word: blowup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Order. The change touched off such a rash of punditing and often conflicting views that Scripps-Howard Columnist Frederick C. Othman wrote: "One consolation about this Malenkov blowup in Moscow is the undisputed fact that I personally know as much about it as any of the alleged Russian experts...
Last week, in the midst of all the diplomatic blowup over Formosa, and at a time of international handwringing, a U.S. RB-45 reconnaissance jet bomber flew peacefully above the Yellow Sea, between the coasts of Korea and Red China, with twelve F-86 Sabre jets above it as top cover. Suddenly from nowhere flared out eight Communist MIGs-nationality uncertain, but intentions lethal. Four MIGs went for the RB-45, four for the Sabre jets. The Far East Air Forces' communique was laconic: "Pilots of the 4th Wing returned the attack and shot down two of the MIGs...
...quiet, scalpel-sharp way, Army Counsel Welch wanted to know why Juliana had not brought in the original picture, or an full blowup...
...opposing, "catastrophic" theory holds that the universe was formed by a vast explosion that gave it the rough outlines of its present structure. Since the great blowup, the universe has been expanding, but other changes in it have been "local...
What existed before the "beginning" when the universe exploded? Ter Haar is careful not to answer this biggest question of all. He says merely that "the present epoch" started with the great blowup. What went before he does not claim to know...