Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warheads on air-to-air rockets, which can be carried by such interceptors as the null null and F-102, can be set to give a predetermined yield of bomber-killing heat, radiation and shock effect; a single burst can make an area of two-to-five cubic miles uninhabitable by an enemy bomber. Moreover, an atomic rocket can down a low-flying enemy bomber while causing only minimum radioactive contamination of the ground area below, since new warheads have been designed with a low fallout yield...
...Carmel Snow-"This changes everything." Cried another fashion oracle: "Dior has done for Paris couture what the taxi drivers did for France at the Battle of the Marne." His pink face smudged with congratulatory lipstick, even Christian Dior was stunned. "My God, what have I done?" he cried, and burst into tears...
...equal to that of the water at his depth. But if he holds his breath while descending, he creates a low-pressure pocket in his lungs: his blood is at a higher pressure, and blood vessels (especially in the lungs, but also in the eye socket and ears) may burst. This will cause the spitting of frothy blood-an alarming symptom, but in this case not likely to be fatal...
...diver who holds his breath while ascending is in a far worse plight: instead of a low-pressure pocket, a high-pressure pocket forms in his lungs, which may burst as a result. The diver is, says Dr. Lanphier, "immediately a candidate for one of the most serious of all diving accidents: air embolism." Apart from the danger of a lung bursting, the abnormal pressure can force air bubbles through the pulmonary veins and into the heart. The bubbles usually travel to the brain, causing convulsions and unconsciousness, and unless the victim is treated promptly by recompression, he is almost...
Next day the market turned right around, climbed 7.32 points to make up more than half of the loss, followed it up with another burst of buying later in the week to wipe out the last of the damage. The final Dow-Jones figure: 468.07, or 1.78 points higher than where it started...