Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test of a super-secret Pentagon weapon called "Fireball," whose object was to draw all available power from New York, divide it into two beams and shoot it into space. "The point at which the two incredibly powerful beams crossed," the paper explained, "would become a mammoth burst of artificial lightning and would presumably destroy any enemy missiles within range...
Coming into Salt Lake City Airport, United's Flight 227 pancaked heavily on asphalt 200 feet short of the concrete runway, zigzagged down the field out of control and burst into flames...
...first burst, close to the ground, caught the point man in both legs; then, veering upward, it ripped into the man behind - opening his stomach and chest and tearing off the top of his head. Another trooper, hit twice, man aged to claw his way almost to the cover of a tree. But bullets chopped him down just as he reached...
Investigators believe that the jolt was so severe that the Agena engine shut down and enough pressure built up in the fuel and oxidizer tanks to rupture them. After that, the Agena either broke up or was destroyed in a fiery blast of fuel and oxidizer from the burst tanks...
...performance of Peter Shaffer's Royal Hunt of the Sun, I tried to recall the last drama of such stature to come from a British pen. Anything on Pinter, Osborne, Fry, Eliot? No. Then I realized that Royal Hunt is the finest British play since Shaws Saint Joan burst on the boards four decades...