Word: blowup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underground gas main springs a leak, the break may not be found before enough gas has escaped to explode with devastating force. All over the U.S., gas companies are constantly on the alert for any gadget capable of pinpointing a small leak before it balloons into a big blowup...
...home and a new assignment as a special adviser on Soviet Affairs to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Foy D. Kohler will arrive next month to take his place. Thompson's Moscow tenure had spanned the period from the short-lived honeymoon spirit of Camp David to the blowup at the Paris summit, to the Kennedy Administration's diplomatic "probes" over Berlin-altogether a mobile period, in many ways harder to handle than the rigidities of Stalinism...
...negative (from 35 mm. to size 120 roll-film) under a glass cover, sets the opening of the enlarging lens according to a number indicated by a built-in exposure meter, and puts a coin in the slot. In 15 seconds, out comes a black-and-white glossy blowup, practically dry. Enlargements four times the negative size can be made. Price per picture...
Events abroad helped change his mind: the capture of U-2 Pilot Gary Powers, the summit blowup and, since then, the increasing Soviet truculence. But so did election-year political pressures at home: if there was one thing all candidates and platforms agreed upon, it was the need to spend more on defense. Eisenhower gave...
...store dummy in a window across the street does a perpetual striptease. In 1917 the Time Traveler stops, only to learn that the world is at war. He sets out again, but matters get worse. He sees the blitzed London of 1940, then is almost buried during the atomic blowup...