Word: concussional
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Outside was chaos and the incongruities inseparable from disaster. A terrier bitch whelped beside a dazed crowd at the foot of the memorial to Texas City's World War II dead. A Negro, suffering from concussion after being blown off the dock into the bay, swam back, walked to...
"Name the Baby Joe." Catholic nuns in black and starched white waited at rough, wooden tables, poured stiff jolts of whiskey into paper cups for the grimy, beaten rescue crews. The news from underground was always bad. They found dozens of men who had been killed by the black damp...
The O'Connor plant, a low, white brick-fronted building, simply disintegrated. Its roof rose into the air and flew apart, its framework splintered, its walls bulged and burst in one enormous moment of concussion and incandescence. The walls and roofs of nearby buildings were smashed; automobiles caved in...
When many people find a window broken in their homes, or new cracks in walls or ceilings, the chances are that any blasting going on within a fifty mile radius will get the blame. Every year, thousands of irate householders file complaints against blasting companies claiming that the vibration and...
Some startling facts have been brought to light through Leet's seismograph tests. In order to break window glass by concussion, charges must be fired in the open air, a most impractical thing in quarrying operations. Window glass must be subjected to pressures of 1 1/2 lbs. per square inch...